US officials said on Monday that they deported a road island doctor for Lebanon last week after discovering the “sympathetic photos and videos” of former Hizbullah’s former long -time leader and terrorists in the removed item folder of their cell phones.
Alavih also told the agents that while living in Lebanon, she attended the funeral last month of Hizbullah leader Hasan Nasrallah, which she had supported as a Shia Muslim with a “religious perspective”.
The US Department of Justice provided the details as it had demanded a federal judge to assure that the US Customs and Border Security did not disobey an order issued on Friday, which Dr. Rasha should have stopped the immediate removal of Alavih.
The 34 -year -old Lebanese citizen, who held an H -1B visa, was detained at the Logan International Airport in Boston on Thursday, after returning from a Lebanon visit to see the family. His cousin then filed a case, demanding to stop his exile.
In its first public interpretation to remove its removal, the Department of Justice said that Kidney expert and assistant professor at Brown University refused to enter the United States again, based on the statements made during an airport interview on their phones and statements.
“This is a purely religious thing,” he said of the funeral, according to a transcript of the interview reviewed by Reuters. “He is a very big person in our community. It is not political for me.”
Western governments, including the United States, nominate Hizbullah as a terrorist group. The Lebanese terrorist group is part of the “Axis of Resistance” of Iran -backed groups in the Middle East, including the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, who attacked Israel about a year ago and launched the Gaza war.
Based on those statements and the discovery of photographs on his phone by Nasrallah and Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khameni, the Department of Justice said that the CBP concluded that “his true intentions could not be determined in the United States.”
A lawyer for Alavih and his cousin did not immediately respond to the requests of the comment.
In Monday’s filing, the Department of Justice also defended the CBP officials against the claims of the legal team of cousins that on that day an order issued by US District Judge Leo Sorokin was excluded from the country on Friday evening in violation of an order issued by US District Judge Leo Sorokin.
The judge issued an order preventing the removal of the bye from Massachusetts without a 48 -hour notice. Still he was put in a flight to France that night and now he is back to Lebanon.
The judge on Sunday directed the government to address “serious allegations” that their order was violated before the scheduled hearing for Monday.
The hearing was canceled on Monday at the request of the cousin’s loan remaining lawyer, as lawyers of Law firm Arnold and Porter Kei Scool, represented their supporter Bono, said quickly, cited “further hard work” about the case.
A lawyer with the firm said that she had gone to the airport on Friday and shows a CBP officer a copy of Sorokin’s order on her laptop before the Air France’s flight, and in a declaration on Monday another CBP official said that she had been before taking Alavih to the boarding area.
But the Department of Justice said that the notification needs to be obtained through standard channels and should be obtained by the agency’s legal lawyer for their review and guidance, which did not happen.
The lawyers of the Department of Justice wrote, “The CBP takes the orders of the court seriously and always tries to follow the court order.”
The filing of the Department of Justice was later sealed by Sorokin at the request of a lawyer for the cousin. Reuters reviewed it from a public terminal in the courtyard, before reaching further access.
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