Michigan falls accusations against the demonstrators, American students who support tiles Israeli conflict news

The Michigan Prosecutor, Dana Nissel, dropped against seven demonstrators from the University of Michigan, citing legal delays and disputes surrounding the United States issue, which it said had become a “rod for the dispute.”

On Monday, the decision puts an end to the case that started in May 2024 when students, who were approved that they were not guilty Protest in the campus supporting the Palestinians.

“We feel justified that the case has been rejected,” Gil Khoja, a member of the defense team, told students. “These individuals did not commit any crime at all. They were exercising their right to protest and engage in a political speech on public property.”

Although the increasing charges and criticism of the case were dropped, Nessel defended on Monday its decision to follow up on the charges of a felony against students, saying “You will find a reasonable jury, the defendants are guilty of alleged crimes.”

However, Nessel added in a statement that she had dropped the charges nearly a year later because she did not believe, “These cases are the wise use of my ministry’s resources.”

While hundreds of students were arrested during the wave of campus camps in support of the Palestine, which swept the United States last year in the middle of Israel’s war on GazaMost of them were released immediately.

The issue in Michigan has gained national attention and has become a symbolic repression worldwide on the demonstrations supporting the events, as the preachers of Palestinian rights argue that the Nessel case was an attack on freedom of expression and gathering.

Defense attorneys submitted to the accused requests to Yensil to receive herself from the case, noting accusations of bias – assurances that the public prosecutor had refused to be “unfounded and ridiculous.”

The Attorney General said in her statement: “These continuous deviations and delays have created a circus similar to these measures.”

The defense lawyer, Khoja, said that the team was “fully confident” in winning the case, either by judicial dismissal or indirect jury’s ruling, and criticized Nissil’s description of the procedures before the trial as a “circus similar” as incorrect.

He said that the request to remove Nissil from the case is justified, adding that the charges should have been received by the boycott, not the state prosecutor, according to the claim procedures in Michigan.

Freedom of expression “under attack”

To emphasize the alleged bias, the defense lawyer also noted that weeks before the charges were presented last year, Nessel clashed with Congress Rashida Tleb, “the only Palestinian in Congress”, to defend the chant “from The river to the seaPalestine will be free, “which was used by the student demonstrators.

Shortly after Nissil accused the students, TLAIB accused the Attorney General of “possible biases” within its agency, which confirms that other protest movements did not face a similar legal campaign.

The public prosecutor answered Tlaib accused From anti -Semitism, although the Congress member did not mention the prosecutor or Jewish identity.

“You should not use a religious Rashida to indicate that I cannot perform my job to some extent as a general lawyer. He is anti -Semitic and a mistake,” Nissel wrote in a social media post in September.

The controversy extended for weeks, with the CNN ports and supporters of Israel, reference to Nessel anti -Semitic allegations against TLAIB without evidence.

Khoja said that the public prosecutor finally wanted to “provide an example from those who protest against Palestine.”

He added that the issue was greater than the concerned students and politicians.

“the First amendment Khoja applies to the island:

“This issue has proven that those who believe in Palestinian rights, and their opinions are just legitimate like anyone else, and the first amendment protects those opinions and your right to express them.”