Irvine 10 found guilty

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"An Orange County jury found 10 Muslim students guilty of misdemeanors for disrupting a 2010 speech by Israel's ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren.

In a case that drew national attention, 11 Muslim students had stood one by one and interrupted a February 2010 speech by Oren at the University of California - Irvine. Oren twice walked off the stage as students shouted "Mass murderer!" and "War criminal!" before being hauled out of the room by campus police. A planned Q&A session after the address was dropped.

The Muslim Student Union at UC Irvine, which organized the heckling, was suspended for a year by the school for violating the school's code of conduct, but four months later got the suspension changed to probation on appeal.

About a year afterward, charges were brought against the students for the disruptions. One later got the charges dismissed for pledging to perform community service.

The charges created a fierce debate on campuses over the line between student activism and uncivil behavior."

http://www.jta.org/news/article/2011/09/23/3089564/irvine-11-found