Since 5/2003, 13 foreign journalists without visas have been detained - deported
Friday, July 16, 2004 at 01:32PM
TheSpook
A Reporter? Cuff Her!
Since March 2003, 13 foreign journalists without visas have been detained and deported from the United States.
When British journalist Elena Lappin arrived in Los Angeles in May, on
assignment for a British newspaper, little did she know she would end
up being the subject of her story. By her own account in The Times
later that month, Lappin was interrogated for four hours, subjected to
a body search, fingerprinted, photographed, handcuffed and forced to
spend a night in a cell in downtown L.A. and a day as a detainee at the
airport before being deported to London. Lappin's crime? Admitting to
customs officials that she was a journalist. [more] and [more]
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