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Recognizing the United States government would probably deport her eventually whether she won or lost her case, Rasmea Odeh pled guilty to a charge that she “procured” U.S. citizenship by failing to disclose she was previously convicted of a crime by an Israeli military court in 1969.
Rasmea Odeh smiles after leaving federal court in Detroit Thursday, March 12, 2015. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
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Palestinian activist Rasmea Odeh | Photo: Justice 4 Rasmea teleSUR – February 26, 2016 A U.S. appellate court on Thursday vacated the conviction of Palestinian activist Rasmea Odeh for allegedly lying on U.S. immigration papers 20 years earlier. Odeh, 67, was put on trial in November 2014 for allegedly falsifying immigration documents when she first […]
Palestinian activist Rasmea Odeh. @all_exclusive123 / Instagram RT | January 29, 2016 Palestinian activist Rasmea Odeh was trending on social media after her supporters started a campaign calling for justice as she awaits a decision on her appeal. Odeh was arrested in the US in 2014, where she worked as an attorney in Chicago, and […]
The “War on Terror” has likewise created a special circumstance that has liberated Justice Department dogmatists: Islamophobes, Zionists, neoconservatives and others who fancy themselves on a special mission to protect the nation from evil and conspiratorial forces. And, as with the hanging judges before them, the result has been an enhanced possibility not of justice, but rather of the miscarriage of justice.
by Dr. Lawrence Davidson
