A former Uber driver and Somali military officer accused of war crimes was deported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement four days before Christmas.
71-year-old Yusuf Abdi Ali was a high-ranking military officer in Somalia during a dictatorship between 1987 to 1989. While Ali was accused of overseeing extrajudicial killings, torture, and arbitrary detention, he was later found driving for Uber and Lyft in suburban Virginia in 2019.
‘Though justice was delayed in this case, it ultimately prevailed.’
On Tuesday, ICE said that Ali had been deported after a Department of Justice immigration judge found in February that he had engaged in torture and assisted in extrajudicial killings during his time in the Somali National Army.
“The Somali National Army committed numerous serious human rights violations against civilians during that time, including the arbitrary arrest and execution of suspected political opponents, the burning of entire towns, the unlawful use of landmines and the destruction of water reservoirs to target the civilian population,” read a statement from ICE. […]
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