{"id":240438,"date":"2016-04-27T18:08:42","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T18:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/from-a-stateless-palestinian-refugee-to-signers-of-the-leahy-letter-in-the-us-congress\/"},"modified":"2016-04-27T18:08:42","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T18:08:42","slug":"from-a-stateless-palestinian-refugee-to-signers-of-the-leahy-letter-in-the-us-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/from-a-stateless-palestinian-refugee-to-signers-of-the-leahy-letter-in-the-us-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"From a Stateless Palestinian Refugee to Signers of the \u201cLeahy letter\u201d in the US Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following letters are from 22-year-old Amena Ashkar and 86-year-old Mariam Fathalla, stateless Palestinians from the refugee camps in Lebanon.\u00a0 They are addressed to the eleven Congressional signers of the \u201cLeahy letter\u201d, asking secretary of State John Kerry to report on Israeli and Egyptian violations of human rights.\u00a0 Amena and Mariam personally took the letters on April 26, 2016, to members of the US Congress and their staffers.\u00a0 In at least one case, this act brought tears to the eyes of a staffer.<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>April 25, 2016<br \/>Hon. [name]<br \/>Congressional address<br \/>Washington, DC<\/p>\n<p>Dear From a Stateless Palestinian Refugee to Signers of the \u201cLeahy letter\u201d in the US Congress [name],<\/p>\n<p>I know that you asked John Kerry, the US Secretary of State, to report to you about gross human&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2016\/04\/from-a-stateless-palestinian-refugee-to-signers-of-the-leahy-letter-in-the-us-congress\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following letters are from 22-year-old Amena Ashkar and 86-year-old Mariam Fathalla, stateless Palestinians from the refugee camps in Lebanon.\u00a0 They are addressed to the eleven Congressional signers of the \u201cLeahy letter\u201d, asking secretary of State John Kerry to report on Israeli and Egyptian violations of human rights.\u00a0 Amena and Mariam personally took the letters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-240438","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}