CAIR Says Three Permanent Residents Not Allowed to Return to US
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
By: Matthew Peddie

March 12th, 2014 | WMFE, Orlando- The Council on American Islamic Relations says it wants the state department to allow three brothers, who are permanent residents of the US, to return from Russia.

One of the three brothers was friends with a Chechen man shot during an FBI investigation in Orlando last year.

The Florida chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations, or CAIR, says Russian Authorities reportedly told the brothers- Khusen, Umar and Khasan Taramov that '“the American side" had put in a request to keep them off the flight,' when they tried to board a plane to the United States in December.

Khusen Taramov was friends with Ibragim Todashev, who was shot and killed in Orlando last year while being questioned by the FBI in connection with one of the Boston marathon bombing suspects.

CAIR Florida has written to secretary of state John Kerry, saying that preventing the brothers from returning to the US without due process of law constitutes grave violations of their civil rights.

Meanwhile State Attorney Jeff Ashton is expected to release a report on his investigation into the shooting of Ibragim Todashev later this month.