Deseret News File photo of Yussuf Awadir Abdi
SALT LAKE CITY — A group of Utah lawyers is working to try and bring a Utah man back to the United States from Kenya.
Refugee Justice League co-founder Jim McConkie says the man is a Muslim Imam in the Salt Lake City area.
“I’ve been out to his mosque two or three times, I know him personally, and this was just a shock,” said McConkie.
McConkie says Yussuf Awadir left Kenya as a refugee but is an American citizen. He went back to get his wife and children and was stopped from getting on a flight Wednesday night.
