Summary
A Palestinian former political prisoner whose torture, forced confession, imprisonment and later deportation from the United States are recounted in Chapter 8 of Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, following Buthina Canaan Khoury’s documentary Women in Struggle (Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, lines 1575-1590).
Details
- In the chapter’s account she was raped with a broomstick when her father, brought into the room and ordered to rape her, refused; forced to confess, she was sentenced to life for allegedly detonating a bomb in a café that killed two Israeli students (lines 1575-1590).
- Released after ten years in a prisoners’ exchange, she emigrated to the US in 1995, obtained US citizenship in 2004, became a leader of Chicago’s Arab American community, and was stripped of her citizenship and deported on the basis of the confession made under torture (lines 1585-1590).
Related pages
Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, Nada Elia, First Intifada