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Home | Friday 13th March 2009 | Issue 668

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TIED IN LEGAL NOTTS

Nottingham student activist Hicham Yezza has been sentenced to nine months imprisonment for allegedly deceiving immigration officials. Having been in England for fourteen years, after coming from Algeria, Hicham was initially caught up in a high profile arrest in June 2008 on bogus terror charges after allegedly downloading an Al Qaeda training manual off a US government site for research purposes as part of another student’s PHD (See SchNEWS 634).

After having his house raided and computer taken, he was interrogated for six days, and upon getting out was immediately re-arrested for immigration inconsistencies and held for another four weeks. Prior to this arrest Hicham was a student activist at Nottingham Uni and magazine editor, and since has been speaking at conferences on global politics and peace. The offence he is being gaoled over is a matter of a ‘technicality’.

See http://freehicham.co.uk

Keywords: algeria, hicham yezza, immigration, nottingham


 

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