Palestinian activist Leqaa Kordia has issued her first statement since she was released from the hospital earlier this week and sent back to ICE custody. Kordia’s family and lawyers spent several days searching for her, with ICE refusing to share information about her whereabouts. She’s been jailed at ICE’s Prairieland Detention Facility in North Texas for almost a year. In the statement, Kordia writes, “I woke up in the Prairieland Detention Facility’s medical unit terrified and confused after having experienced the first seizure of my life. Not until enduring nearly a year of cruel confinement in inhumane conditions had I ever suffered one before. All I felt was fear … For three days in the emergency room, my hands and legs were weighed down by heavy chains … They even refused to remove the chains when I went to the bathroom or took a shower. … The only reason ICE targeted me in the first place is because I protested against the Israeli government’s genocide in Gaza. Even now, U.S.-made bombs continue to destroy Palestinian homes and kill Palestinian families.” Leqaa Kordia adds, “It was terrifying. I felt like an animal.” Click here to see our coverage of her case.