Professor Mark Abramovitz, a university professor who has resided in Germany for fifteen years, is under a two months’ jail sentence for failure to renew his residential permit. Professor Abramovitz, who is a “staatenlose” (man without citizenship in any country) was ill at the time his permit expired and was unable to attend to its renewal.
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