Chicago-area activist asks for bond, release from jail
DETROIT - A Chicago-area activist is asking a Detroit judge to reconsider a decision that is keeping her in jail until she's sentenced for illegally getting U.S. citizenship.
Rasmieh Odeh's allies are even willing to put their homes up as collateral, meaning they could lose them if the 67-year-old flees.
Odeh of Evergreen Park is associate director of the Arab American Action Network in Chicago, which provides services to immigrants. Last week, she was convicted in Detroit of failing to disclose her convictions for bombings in Israel in 1969 when she applied for U.S. citizenship.
Federal Judge Gershwin Drain revoked her bond and sent her to jail to await her sentence. Prosecutors have until Wednesday to respond to Odeh's request that her bond be reinstated.
Odeh says she would stay with an attorney.