Plea Deal: Convicted Terrorist-Day Without a Woman Organizer Agrees to Leave U.S. in Exchange for No Jail Time - News Summed Up

Plea Deal: Convicted Terrorist-Day Without a Woman Organizer Agrees to Leave U.S. in Exchange for No Jail Time


By Valerie Richardson - The Washington TimesConvicted Palestinian terrorist Rasmea Yousef Odeh, an organizer of a Day Without a Woman, has agreed to leave the country in exchange for no jail time for failing to disclose the conviction on her U.S. visa application. Odeh, a resident of Chicago who has lived in the U.S. for about 20 years, plans to plead guilty to unlawful procurement of naturalization in a deal that will allow her to leave the United States rather than face the possibility of an 18-month prison sentence, according to Justice for Rasmea. She had been scheduled to undergo another trial after a U.S. appeals court vacated her 2014 conviction, saying an expert witness should have been allowed to testify that she suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder from allegedly being tortured in prison when she gave the false answers. The 69-year-old Palestinian activist was convicted in the 1969 supermarket bombing in Israel that killed two Hebrew University students. She served 10 years before being released in a prisoner exchange.


Source: Fox News March 24, 2017 17:15 UTC



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