19 August 2024 UK Academic cleared over Gaza charges

Areeb Ullah in middleeasteye.net, “Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has dropped a case against an academic after her employer, the University of Portsmouth, referred her to Prevent for a series of posts, resulting in counterterrorism officers raiding her house and confiscating electronic devices. [. . . ] Amira Abdelhamid is a lecturer in international relations at the University of Portsmouth. Last year, the university suspended her after she posted a series of posts on X related to the 7 October attacks [. . .] Commenting on her experiences over the last few months, Abdelhamid described it as a ‘relief’ but ‘”‘nothing compared to what Palestinians are going through in Gaza’. [. . .] click here.