Support Litigation to Free Palestinians Facing Indefinite Immigration Detention
Meet the Detainees
Taher
Our client Taher Mohammed Taher Hasan is a 22-year-old Palestinian and son of olive farmers in Nablus, the West Bank. After attending Al Quds University where he studied Information Technology, Taher legally entered the United States weeks before the events of October 7, 2023 and the escalation of the genocide in Palestine. He has been in ICE detention for 16 months and counting.
In March 2024, Taher was working as a locksmith in Texas and responded to a call from a client who needed assistance. Unbeknownst to Taher, the client was located on a military base, and Taher was arrested after presenting identification at the base’s entry checkpoint.
The federal government falsely treated Taher as a terrorist. The FBI interrogated him about his family in Palestine and ICE detained him in a high-security unit where detainees with serious criminal records are incarcerated. He has faced significant restraints on his religious freedom.
While Taher has been isolated in detention, the Israeli military has wrought devastation on his family, ransacking their home, beating his father and brother, and murdering one cousin and shooting another cousin (a 12-year-old girl) in the head.
In June, the government attempted to deport him to an unknown country—possibly Israel—without honoring his right (enshrined in international and U.S. law) to express fear that he would be killed or persecuted in that country.
From detention, Taher expresses thanks to all who can support our efforts to liberate him from immigration detention. Once liberated, he looks forward to getting back to his hobbies: reading history and folk literature (his favorite work is One Thousand and One Nights), playing video games (FIFA and Call of Duty) and cooking.
On Friday, August 22, 2025, our firm filed a Writ of Habeas Corpus on Taher’s behalf in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas.
Hisham
Hisham, another Palestinian detainee in need of support, is an older man born in Gaza. Now in his 60s, Hisham lived for years in the Cincinnati, Ohio/Florence, Kentucky area where he worked as an autoworker and Amazon worker.
Hisham has spent the majority of the last years in immigration detention or in shelters along the US-Mexico border. After receiving his degree in engineering, Hisham was relocated to the United States with the assistance of the United Nations. Hisham is presently detained in Texas. We have been unable to contact any of Hisham’s family in Gaza.
Help Taher and Hisham fight in court!
Many immigration detainees cannot afford to hire attorneys to file lawsuits (called petitions for writs of habeas corpus) aimed at securing their liberation. Lee & Godshall-Bennett LLP has been retained by Taher and Hisham, who have given us permission to tell their stories in the hopes that we can raise funds to fight their cases in federal court and raise awareness about detained Palestinians everywhere.
How You Can Help
Taher and Hisham’s situation is urgent and requires immediate legal intervention. Lee & Godshall-Bennett LLP is committed to fighting the government’s effort to detain immigrants indefinitely. Every day that Taher and Hisham remain in custody is an affront to their dignity and their basic democratic rights.
We need your help to protect Taher and Hisham. Every donation helps to defray legal expenses and ensure that they can fight their unlawful, indefinite detention.
Disclaimer
Contributing to our client’s legal fees by means of this crowdfunding effort does not constitute a tax-deductible donation, nor does it entitle you to any control over the case or to any information about the case beyond that which is made public. Our client will be informed of the name and amount of contribution of each donor. Lee & Godshall-Bennett LLP will close this crowdfunding effort and will not allow any further contributions at the time the legal defense is fully funded. If the representation of Lee & Godshall-Bennett LLP is terminated for any reason under the retainer agreement prior to expending the full amount of contributions, Lee & Godshall-Bennett LLP will endeavor to refund unearned funds to the credit card numbers provided, on a last-in, first-out basis. Donations will be placed into Lee & Godshall-Bennett LLP’s client trust account, to be billed down on a regular basis as attorneys perform work on this case.