Woman Sues Over No-Fly List; Thousands Complain They're on Register By Mistake
Rahinah Ibrahim, a Stanford University doctoral candidate, said she was at San Francisco International Airport last year ready to fly to her homeland of Malaysia for a conference.
Ibraham was put in a holding cell for two hours, not allowed to have her pain medication, the suit says.
Finally, Elzankaly said, the FBI told San Francisco police to release Ibraham -- two hours after her flight left. And she was told her name was off the list.
But the next day, she was again flagged as a threat to air travel.
After a while, she was finally allowed to fly.
She was set to return to Stanford in March to finish her schoolwork, but the U.S. Embassy denied her re-entry, for no known reason.
Elzankaly said her client submitted her dissertation from Malaysia and earned her doctorate.
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