Prince William was asked to raise the case of a detained Manchester man during his official trip to Saudi Arabia, while in the United States, an Irishman described his detention by ICE as "like a modern-day concentration camp." These events come as Hong Kong's leader celebrated the sentencing of Jimmy Lai, and employees at Salesforce and Palantir grapple with their companies' relationships with ICE.
Amnesty International wrote to Prince William, sharing the plight of Ahmed al-Doush, a Manchester man detained in Saudi Arabia, according to Sky News. Al-Doush, a father of four and a senior banking analyst for Bank of America, was returning from a holiday when he was detained. Meanwhile, Seamus Culleton, an Irishman living in the US for nearly 20 years and married to a US citizen, described his five-month detention by ICE as "torture," according to Sky News. He hoped Irish premier Micheal Martin would raise his case with US President Donald Trump.
In Hong Kong, the leader celebrated the 20-year jail sentence given to British pro-democracy campaigner Jimmy Lai, stating the media tycoon had "poisoned" the city, as reported by Sky News. This celebration followed the release of a white paper by China outlining plans to enhance a national security law used to suppress free speech and dissent.
Employees at Salesforce circulated an internal letter to CEO Marc Benioff, urging him to denounce recent actions by ICE, prohibit the use of Salesforce software by immigration agents, and support federal legislation to reform the agency, according to Wired. The letter cited the recent killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis as catalysts.
Palantir CEO Alex Karp recorded a video for employees addressing the company's work with ICE, Wired reported. The video, shared by Courtney Bowman, Palantir's global director of privacy and civil liberties engineering, was a response to employee inquiries about the company's involvement with ICE.
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