Iraqi Translator Fights for Asylum
Posted on Tue Jan 16, 2007 at 08:09:41 PM EST
Tags: Steven Vincent (all tags)
Check this out about U.S. officials' treatment of Nour al-Khalm an Iraqi translator/fixer who almost lost her life trying to protect that of American journalist, Steven Vincent, who was kidnapped, beaten, and killed by insurgents in Basra in August 2005. The journalist's widow, Lisa Ramaci-Vincent,testified about it in the Senate hearings today.
If Nour's story spreads maybe she will be granted refugee status protections in the U.S. She sounds like she's deserved it.
A key line of testimony: When Vincent's widow lobbied American bureaucrats to extend refugee status to Nour, she says,
"I have been told she does not qualify for refugee or asylum status because Iraq is now a democracy, hence there should be no reason she would need to flee."
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