
NEW YORK - Omar Jamal, director of the Somali Justice Advocacy Center in Minneapolis, helped get a lawyer for the sole surviving Somali pirate from the Capt. Richard Phillips hostage situation.

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Jamal is the executive director of the Somali Justice Center, an advocacy group in St. Paul, where he lives with his wife and three children. He is an outspoken advocate for Somalis, and a frequent critic of their treatment by the U.S. government.
The intensity of Omar Jamal's advocacy for Somalis was visible as recently as last week. Law enforcment officials, including Heffelfinger, invited Somalis to a meeting to talk about problems immigrants have with government. Jamal charged Hefflefinger and other officials with not following up on investigations into cases of police abuse against Somalis.