‘I suffered from state suicide’

Emirati businessman Ahmed Menhali, arrested and freed by the Ohio police in a humiliating manner after they mistook him for a Daesh member, has claimed he was a victim of state terrorism in the US.

Speaking to Al Arabiya about his ordeal at the Marriott-managed Fairfield Inn & Suites in the city of Avon, Menhali said: “What they did is proof of the mobilization of American society against Muslims. I’ve suffered from state terrorism.” 
Menhali was taken to hospital and stayed there for three days, during which period the police realized he was a businessman who had been in Cleveland since April to undergo medical tests because of a stroke. They apologized to him on Saturday at an official session attended by representatives of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
Menhali, 41, is from Abu Dhabi and has three children, aged seven, 12 and 14. He said his wife and brother were accompanying him in the US for his treatment.
Menhali added that police searched his belongings, threw his phones on the ground, and were unhappy when they did not find anything.
His friend Ahmed Ali Al-Maamouri, who has been living in Cleveland for nine years, told Al Arabiya that the doctors at the hospital warned him of the possibility of another stroke because of what happened to him, and gave him new medicines to stabilize his high blood pressure.
Al-Maamouri said Menhali was a humanitarian who was kind to everyone, and was active in Abu Dhabi in the field of science.
Menhali said the UAE Embassy helped him a lot and assigned him lawyers.

Source: Arab News