NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A Muslim woman filed a lawsuit against the University of Bridgeport on Jan. 10, claiming that the university failed to investigate her reports of sexual harassment. Her harasser, in retaliation, reported her to the FBI as a terrorist.
Balayla Ahmad said in the suit that she was sexually harassed by a male student for months in 2009, but that officials showed “deliberate indifference” to her claims, The Washington Post reports. She also said university officials disseminated false accusations by her harasser, and threatened her with arrest by the FBI.
FBI agents found no wrongdoing by Ahmad and she later discovered that her harasser or his associates had fabricated a story about her. In April 2009, the university informed her that her sexual harassment complaint was closed and she was being referred to a disciplinary committee. The university dismissed her in June.
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