Tuesday, November 01, 2016

Saudi students in the US are really facing discrimination, hatred, and sometimes assault: Saudi college student in Wisconsin dies after assault near campus

"Saudi Arabian student at the University of Wisconsin-Stout died Monday afternoon after being attacked on a main thoroughfare near campus, police and school officials said. Hussain Saeed Alnahdi, 24, was outside Topper's Pizza in downtown Menomonie, Wis., in the early hours of Sunday morning when he was assaulted by a suspect police described as a white male about six feet tall, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reportedShortly after, police found Alnahdi unconscious and bleeding from his mouth and nose. He was initially transported to Mayo Clinic Health System in Menomonie, then taken by helicopter to Mayo Clinic Health System in Eau Claire, where he died from his injuries, police said. Alnahdi was from Buraydah, Saudi Arabia, and had come to UW-Stout in 2015 to study business administration, the university said in a statement." (thanks Sal)