A U.S. federal judge released an imprisoned Palestinian man who has been on a hunger strike since February after refusing to testify about Hamas fund-raising activities in the United States. The judge ruled that Abdelhaleem Ashkar, who was not a target of the fund-raising probe, was not likely to testify and that any further imprisonment would “simply amount to punishment.”
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