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Obain Attouoman, pictured after his release from jail last year, has until March 4 to find a country that will accept him.
Francine Locker and several hundred others, faculty and students, from Fenway High School protested outside the JFK Federal Building yesterday against a plan to deport teacher Obain Attouoman to his native Ivory Coast.

After rally, teacher granted reprieve

Students back his deportation fight

By Scott Goldstein
Globe Correspondent / February 10, 2005

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Federal officials granted a beloved Fenway High School teacher a reprieve from deportation to his Ivory Coast homeland yesterday afternoon, shortly after hundreds of supporters rallied downtown. (Full article: 708 words)

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