Transgender militia leader serving 53 years for plot to blow up Minnesota mosque demands transfer to women’s prison amid ‘relentless sexual harassment’ in men’s facility
The founder of an Illinois militia group found guilty in connection with the 2017 bombing of a mosque in Minnesota has demanded that he be transferred to a women’s prison despite having male genitals.
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 a transfer from Allenwood USP in Pennsylvania to FMC Carswell, a women’s prison in Fort Worth. Texas.
Hari continues to deny taking part in the bombing for which she was convicted and is serving a 53-year prison sentence after a jury in 2020 convicted the leader of the anti-government Illinois militia group in 2017 of several civil rights and hate crime charges. bombing of a mosque in Minnesota.
At the time of her trial, Hari claimed to be dealing with the “inner conflict” of her gender dysphoria and online right-wing conspiracy theories that led to the attack. Michael
Michael Hari (left), who now identifies as Emily Claire Hari (right), 53, has demanded to be transferred from a men’s facility to a women’s prison, while also threatening to cut off her penis
Hari is currently being held at Allenwood USP in Pennsylvania
A judge recommended Hari be placed in FMC Carswell (pictured), a women’s prison, but the Bureau of Prisons decided to send her to a men’s prison
Hari had searched for terms such as ‘gender reassignment’, ‘transgender surgery’ and ‘transgender post-surgery’ with alleged plans to go to Thailand to undergo ‘gender affirming’ surgery.
Hari had already asked the court to take her gender dysphoria into account when requesting to be placed in a women’s prison on the basis of her identity.
The presiding judge said he would let the Bureau of Prisons make the final decision on where Hari should be sent – but Reduxx has now discovered that the judge did indeed recommend that Hari be placed in FMC Carswell, the women’s prison, but the Bureau of Prisons has decided to send her to a men’s prison.
Hari is renewing her demands to be transferred to a women’s prison, while also suing the Bureau of Prisons in a lawsuit filed in late 2022 in the US 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 transferred to a women’s facility by November
In an email exchange, Hari requests a transfer to a women’s prison, but her request was denied but will be reviewed in November 204.
Hari was found guilty of all five charges, including using explosives, damaging property because of its religious nature and obstructing the free exercise of religious beliefs. Pictured: FBI agents on scene in August 2017
No one was injured in the explosion, although community members were shocked by the incident and the mosque’s executive director testified last month that it led to reduced attendance.
Hari is seeking a transfer to a women’s prison under the Bureau of Prison’s transgender policy, which was amended in February 2022 to make the “personal safety” and gender identity of transgender inmates a priority when considering where to place them.
Hari is currently incarcerated at Allenwood USP, a high-security facility for men in Pennsylvania.
Although classified as a ‘male’ inmate, her name has been changed from ‘Michael’ to ‘Emily’ in the Bureau of Prisons system.
In a handwritten complaint, Hari claims she has been subjected to sexual harassment by “dangerous tranny hunters,” while also being ridiculed for her gender identity.
She has also submitted more than 20 pieces of “evidence” in an attempt to show the court that she should not be locked up in a men’s prison.
The exhibits include photographs of her wearing a dress-like uniform.
Hari formally applied for transfer in October 2023, but in a January 2024 email, the Transgender Executive Council simply confirmed her placement at the men’s facility. Hari was told her case would be reassessed in November 2024.
Hari even went so far as to claim 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 both the conditions under which I have been held, and the conditions under which my transgender sisters have been held in BOP custody,” Hari wrote. “If I do not receive reasonable assurance that I will be moved to gender-affirming housing by November 5, I will initiate a hunger strike and self-castration on that date.”
During the trial, prosecutors presented evidence to jurors, including phone records and testimony from federal investigators who tracked Hari down in Clarence, Illinois, a rural community about 125 miles south of Chicago, where she and two co-defendants lived.
Prosecutors portrayed Hari’s hatred of Muslims as her motivation for the bombing during the trial, citing anti-Islam excerpts from Hari’s manifesto known as “The White Rabbit Handbook,” named after her militia group.
In 2017, Hari began posting radical rants on YouTube under the username “Illinois Patriot.” He posted his last video a day before he was arrested for the Minnesota bombing
The bombing of the Dar Al-Farooq Islamic Center took place on August 5, 2017, when the pipe bomb exploded in the imam’s office as worshipers gathered for early morning prayers.
In 2017, Hari began posting radical rants on YouTube under the username “Illinois Patriot.” He posted his last video a day before he was arrested for the Minnesota bombing
The Dar Al-Farooq Islamic Center bombing occurred on August 5, 2017, when the pipe bomb exploded in the imam’s office as worshipers gathered for early morning prayers.
Local faith leaders gathered outside the federal courthouse building in St. Paul and thanked prosecutors and the jury during a news conference after the verdict was handed down.
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 their congregants and other Muslim communities across the state.
Hari was found guilty of all five charges, including using explosives, damaging property because of its religious nature and obstructing the free exercise of religious beliefs.