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January 28, 2025

"My 'Crime'? Being a Journalist Who Speaks Up for Palestine": Ali Abunimah Speaks Out After Swiss Arrest
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The Palestinian American journalist Ali Abunimah was freed from
detention Monday evening and deported from Switzerland after a three-day
ordeal that rights groups and U.N. experts blasted as a major attack on
free speech. Abunimah is founder of the online news site Electronic
Intifada. He was arrested and jailed ahead of a speaking event in
Zurich. He wrote in a social media post after leaving Switzerland, "My
'crime'? Being a journalist who speaks up for Palestine and against
Israel's genocide and settler-colonial savagery and those who aid and
abet it."


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