Relations

Council on American-Islamic relations says British journalist to be released from immigration detention

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(BCN) – An American Muslim civil rights group announced Monday that it helped secure the release of British journalist and political analyst Sami Hamdi from a federal immigration detention center. Hamdi, managing director of The International Interest, a geopolitical consulting magazine, was arrested on October 26 at San Francisco International Airport while in the middle … Read more

L.A. chapter of Council on American-Islamic Relations suing OCSD for forcibly removing protesters’ hijabs 

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the Los Angeles Greater Branch of the Council of American Islamic Relations Orange County, the Ministry of Orange County Sherif, Sherif Don Barnes, and individual OCSD deputies to remove the forced veil from two women while they were held in a protest at the University of California at Irvin last year. However, the Sharif Administration … Read more