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Rasmea Yousef Odeh (born 1947/1948; also known as Rasmea Yousef, Rasmieh Steve, and Rasmieh Joseph Steve)〔("Order Revoking United States Citizenship" ), ''US v. Odeh'', US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, March 12, 2015 (Gershwin A. Drain, US District Judge)〕 is a Palestinian woman and former United States citizen (she was stripped of her US citizenship for immigration fraud). She served as associate director at the Arab American Action Network in Chicago, Illinois.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Arab-American activist on trial for allegedly concealing terror role in immigration papers )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Trial set for Jerusalem terror convict who moved to US )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Palestinian convicted of two bombings back in U.S. court over immigration fraud )〕 Odeh was convicted in 1970 by an Israeli military court of involvement in fatal terrorist bombings, and in 2014 by a US federal jury of immigration fraud. She was sentenced to life in prison in Israel for her involvement in two terrorist bombings in Jerusalem in 1969, one of which killed two people, and involvement in an illegal organization, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). She spent 10 years in prison before she was released in a prisoner exchange with the PFLP in 1980. Odeh was convicted of immigration fraud on November 10, 2014, by a jury in federal court in Detroit, Michigan, for concealing her arrest, conviction, and imprisonment for a fatal terrorist bombing.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=US activist found guilty of not disclosing conviction in fatal Jerusalem bombing )〕 She was taken into custody on November 10, and on December 11 was released on bond pending sentencing.〔 Odeh's counsel maintains she did not receive a "full and fair trial" because the judge would not allow her to testify to her claim that she was tortured by the Israeli military, which he ruled irrelevant to the issue of whether she lied on her immigration application.〔 On February 13, 2015, federal Judge Gershwin A. Drain denied Odeh's request that he either overturn the federal jury’s conviction of her or grant her a new trial. He ruled that her argument lacked legal merit, that evidence showed that Odeh illegally obtained U.S. citizenship by failing to disclose her conviction for the fatal bombings, that the jurors "clearly did not believe () explanation", and that "the evidence was more than sufficient to support the jury’s verdict."〔〔 Odeh was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison on March 12, 2015, stripped of her US citizenship, and will be deported from the United States to Jordan once she is done serving her time.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Prison & Deportation for Hiding Terror Conviction )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Chicago Activist Gets Prison Term for Immigration Crime )〕 She is free on bail while she appeals.〔〔 ==Conviction of involvement in fatal bombing, and imprisonment, in Israel== Odeh was arrested in March 1969, and in 1970 was convicted and sentenced by an Israeli military court to life in prison for: (i) her involvement in two terrorist bombings in Jerusalem; and (ii) involvement in an illegal organization, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).〔〔〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Naturalized U.S. Citizen Charged with Immigration Fraud for Failing to Disclose Terrorism Conviction )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Evergreen Park woman Rasmieh Odeh charged with lying about Palestinian terrorist past )〕 She claims she was convicted after she confessed. Odeh's legal representation disputes the veracity of her confession, based on her allegation that it was obtained after torture by the Israeli military.〔 American federal prosecutors in a later case said that the Israeli investigators found "explosive bricks in her room" and "extensive bomb-making materials and explosives" at the time.〔 One of the bombings killed two Hebrew University students, roommates 21-year-old Leon Kanner of Netanya and 22-year-old Eddie Joffe of a Tel Aviv suburb, on February 21, 1969. The two were killed by a bomb that was placed in a crowded Jerusalem SuperSol supermarket which the two students stopped in at to buy groceries for a field trip.〔〔〔〔〔〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jerusalem Supersol Re-opens for Business; 2 Young Bombing Victims Are Buried )〕〔 The same bomb wounded nine others.〔 A second bomb was found at the supermarket, and defused.〔 Odeh was also convicted of bombing and damaging the British Consulate four days later.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Trial set for U.S.-Palestinian immigrant convicted in Israel deaths; Rasmieh Odeh is accused of hiding she was convicted in Israel for terror attacks from American immigration officials. )〕〔〔 Israeli authorities said the bombings were the work of the PFLP, which claimed credit for the bombings.〔 In 1980, Odeh was among 78 prisoners released by Israel in an exchange with the PFLP for one Israeli soldier captured in Lebanon.〔〔〔 Odeh's lawyer claimed she testified at the United Nations about allegedly being tortured when she was released.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rasmea Odeh」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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