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Palestinian activist Ramy Shaath says France is seeking to deport him
Authorities say Ramy Shaath’s links to Palestinian groups and public remarks make him a threat to public order, and he faces a deportation committee on 21 May.
- Palestinian activist Ramy Shaath is facing deportation from France after authorities deemed his presence a "serious threat to public order." His lawyer, Damia Taharraoui, said the Nanterre prefecture notified them on Friday.
- The prefecture's notice cites links to "figures of the Palestinian cause in France" and Urgence Palestine, which Shaath co-founded after Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack on Israel triggered the Gaza war.
- Shaath, 54, was a prominent figure of the 2011 Egyptian uprising and coordinated the country's chapter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. He spent 900 days in detention before his 2022 release, welcomed by French President Emmanuel Macron.
- Shaath will appear before a deportation committee on May 21, after which the prefecture "may immediately issue a deportation order that can be enforced at any time," Taharraoui said. Deportation is legally impossible, as he no longer holds Egyptian nationality and Palestine is at war.
- He and his family plan to challenge the proceedings before French and European courts. Shaath also alleged authorities suspended his health insurance and closed his bank account, measures he described as attempts to silence his activism.
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The activist, who was released from Egyptian jails in January 2022, was summoned on 21 May before the Departmental Deportation Commission in Nanterre (Hautes-de-Seine).
·Paris, France
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France seeks to deport Palestinian activist Ramy Shaath: lawyer
Palestinian activist Ramy Shaath is facing deportation from France after authorities deemed his presence a "serious threat to public order", his lawyer told AFP on Friday. Shaath, 54, was a prominent figure of the 2011 uprising in Egypt and the coordinator of the country's chapter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. He spent 900 days in detention in Egypt between 2019 and 2022 before he was released and allowe…
·London, United Kingdom
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