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Reports: Daily Mail

A Muslim woman is suing an Ohio jail for forcing her to attend aChristian prayer service while behind bars.

Sakeena Majeed, 24, was locked up in Cuyahoga County Corrections Center for 60 days in April after having an altercation with a police officer in Cleveland.

She claims that corrections officers made her go to the prayer meets every Friday that were held by a baptist minister.

They threatened to put her in solitary confinement if she didn’t go,The L.A. Times reported.

Majeed says she told the officers numerous times that she was a practicing Muslim.

She also claims that they ‘openly chastised and mocked’ her beliefs.

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