Volunteer Aid Worker Arrested

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The short documentary USA v Scott chronicles how, in 2018 , a geography professor and volunteer humanitarian aid worker named Scott Warren was arrested under a law that had previously been used to target smugglers, and faced the potential of a 20-year prison sentence.

The film ponders the boundaries between country and country, and law and morality.

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semi-formal

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English

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