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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Jem Bartholomew

First Thing: US lawmakers decry ‘national disgrace’ of student detentions on visit to Ice jails

Protesters, one holding a placard that says: 'Defend student voices.'
People demonstrate against the detention of PhD student Rümeysa Öztürk in Somerville, Massachusetts, on 26 March. Photograph: Faith Ninivaggi/Reuters

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Congressional lawmakers denounced the treatment of Mahmoud Khalil and Rümeysa Öztürk, students being detained by US immigration authorities for their pro-Palestinian activism, as a “national disgrace” during a visit to the two facilities in Louisiana where each are being held.

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