Feds Drop Charges Against Disabled Woman Arrested For Standing Up At State Of The Union
Source: Huff Post
Mar 19, 2026, 02:57 PM EDT | Updated 4 hours ago
WASHINGTON — The federal government decided Thursday not to seek charges against Aliya Rahman, the Minneapolis woman who was arrested and dragged out of President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address in February for standing up, Rahman’s lawyer told HuffPost.
“The government did the right thing today when it ultimately decided not to file any criminal charges against Aliya,” Jessica Gingold, senior counsel at the MacArthur Justice Center and Rahman’s attorney, said in a statement.
“Aliya should never have been arrested in the first place — she committed no crime and did nothing wrong,” said Gingold. “While we celebrate that no criminal case will go forward, the experience of being singled out for standing and roughly arrested has not been without its costs to Aliya and is now yet another thing from which Aliya must heal.”
Rahman, a Bangladeshi American software engineer who is autistic and has physical disabilities, was attending the address as a guest of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.). She had previously endured a violent encounter with federal immigration enforcement agents in Minneapolis, during which she was dragged out of her car by officers and then locked up in a brutal federal detention center. She had testified to Congress about the incident, which she believes nearly killed her.
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