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A Syrian man who fled the war-torn city of Aleppo in 2014 after suffering torture and imprisonment is suing President Donald Trump and other U.S. officials over an executive order issued last month that still effectively bars the man’s wife and daughter from joining him in Wisconsin, where he was granted asylum.

The man filed the lawsuit anonymously, to protect the identities of his wife and 3-year-old daughter, who still live in hiding in Aleppo. It was filed Monday afternoon in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin, located in Madison, and assigned to U.S. District Judge William Conley.

The lawsuit doesn’t state where the man lives, only that he’s a resident of the Western District of Wisconsin. But Andrei Vrabie, a lawyer from the New York City firm of Holwell Shuster & Goldberg, which is working on the man’s case free of charge, said the man is in his early 30s and lives in Dane County.

Vrabie said that an associate at the firm who lived in Wisconsin was familiar with the man and his earlier asylum case and wondered what Trump’s executive order would do to the man’s efforts to bring his family to the U.S.

“The facts are harrowing, and this is something that stuck out to us,” Vrabie said.