An Illinois militia founder, convicted in connection with the 2017 Minnesota mosque bombing, has demanded to be transferred to a women’s prison, despite having male genitalia.
Michael Hari, who now identifies as Emily Claire Hari, 53, had already asked to be legally recognized as a transgender woman during her trial, but has now requested to be transferred from Allenwood USP in Pennsylvania to FMC Carswell, a women’s prison in Fort Worth. . Texas.
Hari continues to deny having participated in the attack for which she was convicted and is serving a 53-year sentence after a jury convicted the leader of the Illinois anti-government militia in 2020 on several civil rights charges and hate crimes in 2017. Bombing from a Minnesota mosque.
At the time of his trial, Hari claimed to be dealing with the “internal conflict” of his gender dysphoria and right-wing conspiracy theories online that led to the attack. Miguel
Michael Hari (left), now identified as Emily Claire Hari (right), 53, demanded to be moved from a men’s facility to a women’s prison and threatened to cut off his penis.
Hari is currently detained at Allenwood USP in Pennsylvania.
A judge recommended that Hari be placed in FMC Carswell, pictured, a women’s prison, but the Bureau of Prisons decided to send her to a men’s facility.
Hari had been searching for terms including “sex change”, “transgender surgery” and “post-operative transgender” with alleged plans to travel to Thailand to undergo “gender-affirming” surgeries.
Hari had already asked the court to take her gender dysphoria into account and requested to be placed in a women’s prison based on her identity.
The presiding judge said he would let the Bureau of Prisons make the final decision on where to send Hari, but Reduxx She has now discovered that the judge recommended that Hari be placed in FMC Carswell, the women’s prison, but the Bureau of Prisons decided to send her to a men’s facility.
Hari renews her demands to be moved to a women’s prison while also suing the Bureau of Prisons in a lawsuit filed in late 2022 in the United States District Court in the Central District of Illinois.
In a lawsuit against the Bureau of Prisons, Hari threatens to cut off her penis if she is not moved to a women’s facility by November.
In an email exchange, Hari asks to be transferred to a women’s prison, but her request was rejected, but will be reviewed in November 204.
Hari was found guilty of all five charges, which include use of explosives, damaging property due to his religious character and obstruction of the free exercise of religious beliefs. Pictured: FBI agents at the scene in August 2017.
No one was injured in the explosion, although community members were shaken by the incident and the mosque’s executive director testified last month that it has led to a decline in attendance.
Hari is seeking a transfer to a women’s prison under the Bureau of Prisons’ transgender policy, which was amended in February 2022 to make the “personal safety” and gender identity of transgender inmates a priority when considering where they should be. located.
Hari is currently incarcerated at Allenwood USP, a high-security facility for men in Pennsylvania.
Although she is classified as a “male” inmate, her name in the Bureau of Prisons system has changed from “Michael” to “Emily.”
In a handwritten complaint, Hari claims she has been subjected to sexual harassment by ‘dangerous tranny hunters’, while also being mocked for her gender identity.
She has also presented more than two dozen “evidence” in an attempt to show the court that she should not be placed in a men’s prison.
The exhibits include photographs of her wearing a dress uniform.
Hari formally requested to be transferred in October 2023, but in a January 2024 email, the Transgender Executive Council simply reaffirmed her placement in the men’s facility. Hari was told that her case would be reviewed again in November 2024.
Hari even claimed that if she was not transferred to a women’s prison in November, she would go on a hunger strike and cut off her penis.
“The hunger strike is a political protest against the conditions in which I have been held and against the conditions in which my transgender sisters have been held in BOP custody,” Hari wrote. “If I am not given some reasonable assurance that I will be moved to gender-affirming housing by November 5, I will begin a hunger strike and self-castration on that date.”
During the trial, prosecutors presented evidence to jurors that included phone records and testimony from federal investigators who tracked Hari to Clarence, Illinois, a rural community about 120 miles south of Chicago, where she and two co-defendants they lived.
Prosecutors described Hari’s hatred of Muslims as his motivation for the attack during the trial, citing anti-Islam excerpts from Hari’s manifesto known as ‘The White Rabbit Manual’, named after his militant group.
In 2017, Hari began posting radical rants on YouTube under the username ‘Illinois Patriot.’ He posted the last video of himself a day before he was arrested for the Minnesota bombing.
The Dar Al-Farooq Islamic Center bombing occurred on August 5, 2017, when the homemade bomb exploded in the imam’s office as worshipers gathered for morning prayers.
In 2017, Hari began posting radical rants on YouTube under the username ‘Illinois Patriot.’ He posted the last video of himself a day before he was arrested for the Minnesota bombing.
The Dar Al-Farooq Islamic Center bombing occurred on August 5, 2017, when the homemade bomb exploded in the imam’s office as worshipers gathered for morning prayers.
Local religious leaders gathered outside the federal court building in St Paul and thanked prosecutors and the jury during a news conference after the verdict was delivered.
Abdulahi Farah, program director at Dar Al-Farooq, said the mosque’s sense of community was “shattered” after the attack, but the guilty verdict sends a “strong message” to its parishioners and other Muslim communities across the country. state.
Hari was found guilty of all five charges, which include use of explosives, damaging property due to his religious character and obstruction of the free exercise of religious beliefs.