PEN America Files Legal Brief Calling for Release of Student Detained for Reading Poem
July 29, 2019
July 29, 2019
NEW YORK, July 29 -- PEN America issued the following news release:
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- ICE acted in retaliation for protected speech that was critical of the agency, PEN America argues
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PEN America today filed a friend of the court brief urging a federal appeals court in California to immediately release a student arrested and detained by ICE for publicly reciting a poem. The brief, filed in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, is in support of studen . . .
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- ICE acted in retaliation for protected speech that was critical of the agency, PEN America argues
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PEN America today filed a friend of the court brief urging a federal appeals court in California to immediately release a student arrested and detained by ICE for publicly reciting a poem. The brief, filed in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, is in support of studen . . .