Rights groups say his arrest is an attempt by the West to crush expressions of solidarity with Palestine.
Abunimah was also interrogated by Swiss Defence Ministry intelligence agents. / Photo: The Electronic Intifada
"On Monday evening I was brought to Zurich airport in handcuffs, in a small metal cage inside a windowless prison van and led all the way to the plane by police," he said, recounting his deportation. I’m free! I wrote this on the plane and I’m posting it just after landing at Istanbul. On Monday evening I was brought to Zurich airport in handcuffs, in a small metal cage inside a windowless prison van and led all the way to the plane by police. This is after three days and two…Irene Khan, the UN special rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression, called the arrest"shocking news" and urged Switzerland"to urgently investigate and release.
Abunimah said that his only crime was 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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