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Salem Almuzaini was a senior official in the Saudi government. Then he was seized — and, he says, tortured — by the Saudi security forces he had once helped.
A federal appeals panel tells the University of Iowa, regarding its moves against campus religious groups, "we are hard-pressed to find a clearer example of viewpoint discrimination."
