A Muslim student, who became an Internet sensation after his arrest in the US for bringing to school a homemade clock that was mistaken for a bomb, today announced that he has got the timepiece back.
Ahmed Mohamed, 14, tweeted “got my clock back finally!!”, following the sentence with smiling emoji.
The family of Mohamed, who just came back from a trip to the White House where he met President Obama, earlier said in that it had hired two Dallas attorneys Thomas Bowers and Reggie London “to pursue Ahmed’s legal rights and regain his science project from the Irving Police Department.” The clock had been cleared for release “for weeks” since September 16 and that the department notified Mohamed’s family on September 18 that it could be picked up, London said. Bowers said they couldn’t pick the clock up for a while as Mohamed, a ninth-grader, “has been busy travelling” and searching for new schools.