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BBC AI Chief's Past Conviction for Immigration Offenses Revealed
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Hicham Yezza, the BBC's Principal Data Scientist for Responsible AI, was previously jailed for immigration offenses and investigated for possessing an al-Qaeda manual. He was arrested in 2008 along with a student but released without charge. Yezza later served a nine-month sentence for immigration offenses before becoming a British citizen. He also co-founded Ceasefire Magazine and has a history of making anti-Israel statements on social media.
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- BBC AI chief Hicham Yezza was jailed for immigration offenses and investigated for al-Qaeda manual.
- Yezza was arrested in 2008 with a student over the manual but released without charge.
- He served a nine-month sentence for immigration offenses in 2009.
- Yezza is now the Principal Data Scientist for Responsible AI at the BBC.
- He previously co-founded Ceasefire Magazine and made anti-Israel statements online.
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