Cair launches new appeal to bring Palestinian teen detained by Israel home to US

The US's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organisation launched a fresh appeal on Friday for the Trump administration to advocate for the release of 16-year-old Mohammed Ibrahim, who has been detained in an Israeli prison for eight months. 

Israeli prosecutors allegedly threatened to keep Ibrahim imprisoned for another three years unless he admitted to a crime he did not commit. If he does, he would then serve a two-year prison sentence.

In a statement, Cair’s government affairs director, Robert McCaw, said: “For every day that Mohammed Ibrahim is unjustly imprisoned and abused by the Israeli military, we will continue to pressure our elected officials to demand his immediate release.”

A campaign, entitled #BringMohammedHome, is running until Saturday and will include vigils, rallies, online campaigns, phone banking, and letter-writing initiatives across the country.