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...visa to visit Germany as a tourist. It was a good time to leave Egypt. Earlier that month Anwar Sadat had arrested some 2,000 Islamic intellectuals, clerics and fundamentalists who opposed him. One week after Abouhalima departed, militants killed the Egyptian President. Meanwhile, in Munich, Abouhalima sought political asylum, claiming that he faced persecution in Egypt because of his membership in the Muslim Brotherhood, a fundamentalist party that was then facing a harsh crackdown...
Harvard Law School researchers yesterday released the nation's first independent study of the reformed U.S. asylum adjudication process yesterday, with the new process receiving mixed reviews...
According to the report, adjudicators are a "substantially more professional, informed, and impartial body of decision makers than the INS examiners who adjudicated asylum claims previously...
...vastly improved over the old system," said Law School Lecturer Deborah Anker, who served as research director for the project and coordinates the Law School's immigration and refugee program. But the research group, which is called the National Asylum Study Project of the Harvard Law School Immigration and Refugee Program, determined that immigrants applying for asylum still face an organization that is underfunded, understaffed, and in need of serious management reforms...
Beginning in November 1991 under a grant from the Ford Foundation, the team reviewed over 1,300 case histories, visited asylum sites, and interviewed asylum directors, applicants and attorneys as well as others involved in the process...