Rasmieh Odeh
Rasmieh Odeh
A Detroit federal judge on Tuesday granted Palestinian activist Rasmieh Odeh a new trial next month that will include testimony from a psychologist who says Odeh suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder after being tortured by Israeli authorities, the Detroit Free Press reports.
Niraj Wariko of the Freep reports:
Odeh, 69, a former resident of Jackson who now lives in Chicago, was found guilty in 2014 of not disclosing she had been convicted in an Israel bombing in 1969 when she was applying to be a U.S. citizen. Odeh, a community advocate with an Arab-American group, was sentenced last year to 18 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Gershwin Drain.
In February, a three-judge panel with the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals said that Drain had wrongly excluded testimony about the psychological trauma that Odeh said she suffered in Israeli prisons.
Odeh has claimed she had nothing to do with the bombing but confessed after being tortured.
