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U.S. Citizen Returning Home After Being Arrested And Prosecuted In India

By Apoorva Mittal
Published March 8, 2021 at 4:22 PM EST

In India, a U.S. citizen was arrested and prosecuted for allegedly breaking lockdown rules and spreading the coronavirus at the gathering of an Islamic revivalist movement. Now, he's coming back home.

Apoorva Mittal reported this story as a justice reporting fellow at the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting.

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