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...Prime [an error occurred while processing this directive] Minister Jan Peter Balkenende, it was his second coalition break-up in only four years in office. In May, "Iron Rita" Verdonk took away Hirsi Ali's passport because the Somalian-born woman had entered the country and requested asylum in 1992 under a false name, as she had openly admitted. Many considered Verdonk's handling of the dossier excessively harsh, and under pressure from her government colleagues, Verdonk ruled that Hirsi Ali was indeed entitled to carry the ancestral name she used and her passport was restored. But Verdonk, a member...
Where Ayaan Hirsi Ali goes, controversy seems to follow--and linger. The Somali-born activist, named to 2005's TIME 100 for her campaign against Islamic extremism, quit the Dutch Parliament in May after being told she would be stripped of citizenship for lying on her 1992 application for asylum. Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk flip-flopped last week, saying Hirsi Ali's citizenship was safe. But the Dutch coalition government was not, and collapsed amid discord over Verdonk's original move. Hirsi Ali, 36, regrets that the citizenship issue was politicized and not debated more seriously. "This is absurd...
...risk with white-on-white decor is that it can seem disconcertingly reminiscent of an asylum, but it hasn't prevented the Ambience Hotel, ambiencehotel.com.tw, from emerging as one of the sanest accommodation choices in Taipei. Style-conscious guests will recognize[an error occurred while processing this directive] the Philippe Starck and Ferruccio Laviani furnishings throughout the property, yet local design talent takes most of the credit for the beautifully sparse look of the city's first truly hip hotel...
...torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment." But torture is one of those areas where European reality is a bit messier than theory. In 2000, Amnesty International pointed to a troubling number of reports of ill treatment within Europe, many pertaining to the alleged abuse of asylum seekers. The implications of the Marty report are still more sobering. It's hard to escape the conclusion that some European governments, and law-enforcement and intelligence agencies, have decided that torture - when it's outsourced to countries that don't play nice - isn't their problem. Or perhaps there...
RESIGNED. Ayaan Hirsi Ali, 36, prominent Somali-born Dutch parliament member and outspoken opponent of Islamic extremism; after officials, citing a TV report detailing Hirsi Ali's misrepresentation of her name and birth date on her 1992 asylum application, declared her passport invalid, despite Hirsi Ali's previous public acknowledgment of the falsifications; in The Hague. Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk was widely criticized for her treatment of the women's advocate and forced to back down, but Hirsi Ali, who has endured death threats because of her views, said she planned to leave the Netherlands. She is expected to join...