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Yale Student Cleared Of Sexual Assault Will Return To School, Still Faces Expulsion

Ashe Schow

A Yale University Student who was cleared of sexual assault charges in a court of law can return to his school, but faces a campus kangaroo court under activist pressure to expel him.

Saifullah Khan, an immigrant who grew up in an Afghanistan refugee camp, was accused of sexually assaulting a fellow Yale student after a night of drinking. Jurors took less than four hours to find him not guilty after viewing surveillance video showing Khan and his accuser walking arm-in-arm while smiling, which the prosecution tried to present as Khan dragging the woman.

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