The
SF Chronicle reports that a federal judge in San
Francisco has "indignantly rejected" the TSA's attempt
to use secret evidence to thwart the efforts of a former Stanford
student to understand why she's apparently on a secret "no-fly" list.
The government must stop its "persistent and stubborn refusal" to follow
the law, U.S. District Judge William Alsup said this week.
Rahinah
Ibrahim's name on the confidential no-fly list has barred her and one
of her four children from returning to the United States for nearly
eight years. She was a Stanford graduate student in January 2005 when
she was first stopped at San Francisco International Airport and
prevented from boarding a flight to her native Malaysia.
She was
arrested and jailed briefly by San Francisco police but was allowed to
take the flight the next day, with her 14-year-old daughter. When
Ibrahim tried to return two months later, however, she was again stopped
and told she was subject to arrest. The U.S. Consulate later said her
student visa had been revoked under a terrorism law.
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