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The UK government has revoked the student visa of a Palestinian student who lost relatives in Gaza after she spoke at a demonstration at the University of Manchester.

Dana Abuqamar, a law student who heads the Friends of Palestine Society at the University of Manchester, said the UK government revoked her visa on “national security” grounds, after claiming she was a risk to public safety.

“The claim they are making is baseless and violates my rights as a resident here in the UK. My legal team has lodged a human rights appeal against this decision to revoke my student visa in my last and final year as a law student,” Abuqamar said, speaking to Al Jazeera English, confirming that her visa had been revoked.

Last year, Abuqamar revealed that she had lost at least 15 relatives in Gaza after the Israeli army bombed a three-storey building in the besieged enclave.

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[–] protist@mander.xyz 24 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Yeah imma need to see the words in the speech surrounding that sentence before I can draw any conclusions. That could be taken wildly out of context for all we're presented with here.

Even in a worst case scenario, why now and not last year?

[–] clara@feddit.uk 11 points 6 months ago

ok, here's the context. (click here)

the source of this file, regrettably, is the daily mail. broken clocks and all that. i will link the "article" that the video file was from, but you will need a hazmat suit going in, for both the cookies/trackers and low quality writing

here's that source now. (click here)

for posters below saying they couldn't find this, i understand it. we all get different search results, it's possible you all got hugboxed and were unable to find the clip as a result

also, i don't care to discuss the topic, i only wanted to link the source, because you were all struggling with it. i like finding sources :)

have a nice day 🥰

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They've been in the news quite a few times, the quoted portion mentioned being the most infamous event so far. And governments like the UK generally don't do things that could be very easily defeated in a civil court.

Lemmy's extreme-left news posts are often as bad at telling the truth as Reddit's extreme-right ones. Propaganda comes in all flavours, so if something doesn't make sense, it probably is hiding some truth.

[–] protist@mander.xyz 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

They've been in the news quite a few times, the quoted portion mentioned being the most infamous event so far.

Source for the context that's missing here?

And governments like the UK generally don't do things that could be very easily defeated in a civil court.

I don't agree with that at all. The Tories have been running roughshod over precedent left and right and spinning up all sorts of legal battles

Lemmy's extreme-left news posts are often as bad at telling the truth as Reddit's extreme-right ones.

I don't get how you're relating this to this news story

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world -5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Can you please Google these questions for yourself? It seems a lot to ask of others, and on yourself to type up such a lengthy comment when you could just paste their name into a search engine and hit Enter.

[–] ickplant@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I googled it and found nothing. Can you provide a source for your claim? I’m not saying you are wrong but you claim it’s super easy to find, and it’s not.

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world -3 points 6 months ago

Really? I see pages of articles directly about her, things related to her, and even petitions for and against her.

That's a shame. Maybe better luck next time.