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This contributed photo shows Rumeysa Ozturk on an apple-picking trip in 2021. (AP Photo)
April 17, 2025, 7:55 pm
Immigration judge denies bond for Turkish US grad student, held for anti-Israel activism
Trump admin offered one-paragraph document pointing to Rumeysa Ozturk’s involvement in anti-Israel student groups to justify continued detention amid deportation effort
By KATHY McCORMACK
A sign on the University of Vermont campus in Burlington, Vermont, is pictured on March 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)
November 27, 2023, 1:39 pm
Police arrest suspect in shooting of 3 Palestinian students in Vermont
Jason J. Eaton is suspected of opening fire on the men after overhearing them speaking Arabic; Burlington mayor says it ‘may have been a hate-motivated crime’
By KATHY McCORMACK
Amer Fakhoury holds his granddaughter, Kira, in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, June 2016. (Guila Fakhoury via AP, File)
August 17, 2022, 11:37 pm
US judge rules that family can proceed with lawsuit alleging torture by Lebanon
Lebanon imprisoned US citizen Amer Fakhoury over his past role at prison run by Israeli-backed South Lebanon Army, causing his death, relatives say in suit filed against Iran
By KATHY McCORMACK
Three of Amer Fakhoury's four daughters, from left, Guila, Macy and Zoya Fakhoury, gather Nov. 5, 2019, in Salem, N.H. Amer Fakhoury was a Lebanese American restaurant owner who made his first trip back to Lebanon in 2019 in nearly 20 years to see family. In Lebanon he was accused of torturing and killing inmates at a former prison where his family says he had worked as a clerk. Fakhoury was released in March 2020 and died that August from lymphoma. (AP/Kathy McCormack, File)
August 16, 2022, 6:48 am
US judge says family can’t sue Lebanon over dead man’s captivity
Relatives of Amer Fakhoury, an ex-member of the SLA, say he developed illness while imprisoned during a visit to Lebanon over decades-old murder and torture charges that he denied
By KATHY McCORMACK
In this Nov. 5, 2019, photo, from left, Guila, Macy and Zoya Fakhoury, three of Amer Fakhoury's four daughters, gather in Salem, New Hampshire. (AP Photo/Kathy McCormack)
January 19, 2022, 9:59 am
New Hampshire family aims to sue Lebanon over dead father’s arrest
Relatives say Amer Fakhoury, who succumbed to cancer in 2020, was arrested and tortured in custody
By KATHY McCORMACK and Jon Gambrell
In this Nov. 5, 2019, photo, from left, Guila, Macy and Zoya Fakhoury, three of Amer Fakhoury's four daughters, gather in Salem, New Hampshire. (AP Photo/Kathy McCormack)
March 28, 2021, 7:15 pm
Family of American who was held, tortured in Lebanon builds support for hostages
Amer Fakhoury Foundation aims to be a support network for Americans imprisoned abroad, including in Iran and Russia
By KATHY McCORMACK
A former inmate of Khiam prison holds a mock gallows during a sit-in near a military court where an arrest warrant was issued for Lebanese-American Amer Fakhoury, who confessed he had worked for Israel when it had a security zone in Lebanon for nearly two decades, in Beirut, Lebanon, September 17, 2019. (Bilal Hussein/AP)
February 24, 2020, 8:28 pm
Bill aims sanctions at Lebanon over US citizen detained for alleged torture
Legislation would sanction current and former Lebanese officials involved in holding Amer Fakhoury, 57, former member of the disbanded, Israel-backed South Lebanon Army
By KATHY McCORMACK
In this May 2019 photo provided by Guila Fakhoury, her father Amer Fakhoury, second from right, gathers with family members at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire. (Guila Fakhoury via AP)
November 25, 2019, 6:06 am
US citizen jailed in Lebanon 20 years after fleeing with Israel-allied militia
Family members say Amer Fakhoury had been assured he would not face prosecution for belonging to South Lebanon Army, but Beirut says he played central role in a torture prison
By KATHY McCORMACK
Jennifer Cramer Kelley poses at her home with a photo of her brother Christopher Cramer in Nashua, New Hampshire, on January 13, 2016. Cramer was found dead on January 15, 2015, beneath the third-floor balcony of a hotel is Tabuk, Saudi Arabia. (AP/Jim Cole)
January 15, 2016, 6:03 am
Mystery surrounds Saudi Arabia death of Israel-linked defense contractor
US family of Christopher Cramer, who worked for an Elbit subsidiary, doesn’t believe Saudi claim his death was a suicide
By KATHY McCORMACK
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