He isn't the first and he won't be the last, but Salah Sarsour is a political prisoner of the Trump regime, and even worse, they're trying to kill him.
Sarsour, 53, is a Palestinian-American who is president of the largest mosque in Wisconsin. He has been in the U.S. since 1993, where he is a permanent resident with citizen children and grandchildren. According to this AP story, his Type 2 diabetes is not being handled at all properly and he has lost 30 pounds. At the Indiana jail where he's being held, he's being told to eat pork products and being deprived of religious freedom in multiple other ways.
Wisconsin Public Radio reported on his detainment back in April, when it seemed as though this might be a short-term thing, but obviously, that was not to be.
From the AP story:
An investigation by KFF Health News and the AP found that hundreds of detainees in at least 33 states have filed federal lawsuits with similar allegations of medical neglect. Those lawsuits include other detainees who say they were denied medication or had treatment delayed for conditions including cancer, high blood pressure, epilepsy, Parkinson’s, HIV, diabetes, infections, depression and more.
As with everything the Trump regime does, this is being carried out in our names.
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