American labor activist Chris Smalls was released from Israeli imprisonment on Thursday after being assaulted by soldiers who abducted him and the rest of the crew of a ship headed to Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid on Saturday. The Gaza Freedom Flotilla Coalition said that Smalls, the founder of Amazon Labor Union, and a Tunisian activist, Hatem Aouini, were released Thursday morning.
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