(Brown Daily Herald) On Monday, lawyers from Muslim Advocates and Marzouk Law submitted an amended lawsuit challenging the March deportation of Assistant Professor of Medicine Rasha Alawieh. She was deported to Lebanon despite holding a valid H-1B visa and a federal judge’s order not to deport Alawieh without prior notice.
This new complaint was filed just before the U.S. District Judge Leo Sorokin unsealed court documents Wednesday detailing the government’s argument for deporting Alawieh along with transcripts of a conversation between the Rhode Island doctor and a Boston-based official with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
In the now-public filings, the federal government claimed that U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents found “sympathetic photos and videos” of various Hezbollah leaders, who Alawieh said she supported religiously rather than politically. Her phone also contained “Hezbollah martyr photos,” a lawyer for the U.S. Department of Justice wrote.
