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Salah Sarsour, a longtime legal resident of the U.S., faces deportation based on old Israeli convictions from the 80s and 90s—charges he denies are tied to terrorism or his current activism. In court, his former Israeli lawyer testified Sarsour was tortured into confessing and that his weapon-related plea deal was made to avoid a harsher sentence. Crucially, no terrorist group was ever linked to him. Human rights groups back up claims of abuse in Israeli prisons, and Sarsour’s case is part of a growing pattern targeting U.S. residents for speaking out on Palestine since October. His next hearing is September 14—and he won’t testify himself.

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