US demands long prison term for Rasmea Odeh, based on Israeli accusations

posted on: Feb 26, 2015

Federal prosecutors are recommending that Rasmea Odeh be sentenced to up to seven years in prison before proceedings begin to deport her from the Unites States.

The sentence prosecutors are calling for against the Chicago-based Palestinian American community leader is much tougher than those contained in federal guidelines for those convicted of immigration offenses.

Last November, a federal jury in Michigan found Odeh guilty of immigration and naturalization fraud for failing to disclose her conviction by an Israeli military court in 1969 for helping to organize a series of bombings in Jerusalem.

Odeh has maintained the the 1969 convictions were the result of a false confession extracted through weeks of prolonged torture and sexual assault by Israeli interrogators

Source: electronicintifada.net