Palestinian activist Rasmieh Odeh's immigration fraud conviction vacated

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Palestinian activist Rasmieh Odeh's immigration fraud conviction vacated

Reuters
Thursday 25 February 2016 20.41 GMT

A US appellate court on Thursday vacated the conviction of a Palestinian activist charged with immigration fraud for failing to tell US authorities she had been imprisoned in Israel for a 1969 supermarket bombing that killed two people.

Rasmieh Yousef Odeh, 68, has said her confession to the bombing was the result of severe torture by the Israeli military, including rape and electric shocks.

The sixth circuit US appellate court opinion said a lower court should have allowed expert testimony that Odeh was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) due to torture in prison, and did not know her statements to immigration officials were false.

The appellate court said the lower court erred by excluding the testimony.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/25/rasmieh-odeh-immigration-fraud-conviction-palestine-israel

[OutNow]

1. Great News - another FBI smear defeated

Thanks for posting! Here is some background on the case

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[azurnoir]

2. Thank you for posting this

[Little Tich]

3. A confession made under duress while in Israeli military detention isn't reliable anyway.

Personally, I don't trust a court system with a 99.74% conviction rate, it seems a bit high... (http://www.haaretz.com/nearly-100-of-all-military-court-cases-in-west-bank-end-in-conviction-haaretz-learns-1.398369)