Afghan Woman Whose Case Was the First for a Long-Dormant Court Has Been Deported, Officials Say
Nazira Haji Zada waived her challenge and was deported after becoming the first person handled by the Alien Terrorist Removal Court.
- The Justice Department announced Friday that Nazira Haji Zada, an Afghan woman accused of supporting an Islamic State-inspired plot, has been deported in the first case processed through the Alien Terrorist Removal Court.
- Authorities arrested Haji Zada in July at her Fort Worth, Texas, home after accusing her of supporting an Islamic State-inspired plot. She is the mother and mother-in-law of two Afghan men convicted of plotting an Oklahoma attack on Election Day.
- Established in 1996, the Alien Terrorist Removal Court had received no petitions until recently and comprises five federal judges from different districts across the United States conducting specialized deportation proceedings.
- By waiving her rights to challenge detention, Haji Zada agreed to deportation, avoiding a protracted legal fight that would have tested the court's authority and the strength of the government's allegations.
- Details regarding when and where Haji Zada was deported remain undisclosed, though the Justice Department confirmed the action. The underlying plot involving her family was foiled before any attack could occur in the United States.
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Afghan woman whose case was the first for a long-dormant court has been deported, officials say
WASHINGTON (AP) — An Afghan woman who was accused of supporting an Islamic State-inspired plot in the United States and whose case was the first for an obscure and long-dormant court has been deported, the Justice Department said Friday.
Afghan woman whose case was the first for a long-dormant court has bee
WASHINGTON (AP) — An Afghan woman who was accused of supporting an Islamic State-inspired plot in the United States and whose case was the first for an obscure and long-dormant court has been deported, the Justice Department said Friday. Nazira Haji Zada was arrested in July at her Fort Worth, Texas, home and brought before the Alien Terrorist Removal Court on a Justice Department application to deport her from the U.S. On Friday, the department…
Department of justice removes alien terrorist in first use of united states alien terrorist removal court
In the first-ever case before the United States Alien Terrorist Removal Court (ATRC), Nazira Haji Zada, 47, an Afghan national previously residing in Fort Worth, Texas, was removed from the United States after conceding that she is an alien terrorist. As the matriarch in her family, she supported a plot to commit an ISIS-inspired mass […]
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