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Muslim mother sues school for $25million ‘after 12-year-old son with learning difficulties was forced to sign ISIS confession’

August 17, 2016 Cholo Brooks The World 0

sonA Muslim mother is suing a New York school district after claiming her disabled son was forced to sign a confession saying he was part of ISIS.

Nubaisha Uppal, from Long Island, claims senior staff at East Islip Middle School bullied 12-year-old son Nashawn into falsely confessing he was a terrorist.

Attorney David Antwork said Nashawn, who emigrated to the US from Pakistan, was pressured into signing the confession despite not knowing what the word ‘terrorist’ meant because of his severe social and learning difficulties. READ MORE OF THIS STORY

SOURCES: NewsNow/Daily Mail

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Joel Cholo Brooks is a Liberian journalist who previously worked for several international news outlets including the BBC African Service. He is the CEO of the Global News Network which publishes two local weeklies, The Star and The GNN-Liberia Newspapers. He is a member of the Press Union Of Liberia (PUL) since 1986, and several other international organizations of journalists, and is currently contributing to the South Africa Broadcasting Corporation as Liberia Correspondent.