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HRW director to be deported after Supreme Court rejects appeal

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Published: 22 November 2019

Last updated: 4 March 2024

Omar Shakir will leave Israel on November 25 after judges won’t re-examine ruling upholding a government decision to expel him

Supreme Court rejects appeal against deportation of HRW director (Times of Israel)
Justices won’t re-examine ruling upholding a government decision to expel Omar Shakir over his alleged support for the Israel boycott movement; he will leave country in 6 days

HRW official to be deported by November 25 after High Court Chief ruling (Jerusalem Post)
Human Rights Watch official Omar Shakir will need to leave Israel by November 25 after High Court President Esther Hayut denied him a stay of a deportation order against him pending his request for a broader panel of the High Court of Justice overturn the order

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