More than 100 organizations advocate for freedom of 16-year-old dual citizen detained for more than six months
More than one hundred US human rights, faith-based and civil rights groups have demanded that the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, immediately secure the release of a 16-year-old dual American-Palestinian citizen who has been in an Israeli prison for six months over allegations of rock throwing.
The coalition, which includes the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, the Center for Constitutional Rights and Pax Christi USA, warned that Mohammed Zaher Ibrahim’s deteriorating health puts “his life on the line” and demanded urgent US intervention in the most significant organized pressure campaign on the imprisoned teenager’s case yet.
“Mohammed is an American child with a community in Florida who cares about him deeply,” the organizations wrote. “It is the responsibility of the U.S. government to protect all American children, including Palestinian-Americans.”
The ADC, one of the signers, also erected a billboard in New York’s Times Square earlier in August featuring Ibrahim’s photograph and the message “Free Mohammed Ibrahim”, describing him as a Palestinian American teenager “unjustly imprisoned by Israel”.
