Summary

The African woman who recently won her fight for asylum in the US is speaking out

Source CONUS Archive
Record ID 167825
Story Slug WOMAN ON US ASYLUM (8/19/1999)
Location NEW YORK, NEW YORK
Format vo/sot
Date 08/19/1999
Archive Time 29:32
TRT 1:25
Supers New York, New York / 8/19/99 Adelaide Abankwah / Granted Political asylum Rana Badri / Equality Now November 6, / 1998
Video Description woman SOT talking to reporters and crowd at news conference, close up of woman, woman at jail, close up of hands crossed
Description The African woman who recently won her fight for asylum in the US is speaking out
Script LEAD: The African woman who recently won her fight for asylum in the US is speaking out Adelaide abankwah (AH bahnk wah) met with reporters in Midtown New York in the offices of Marie Claire The magazine championed the Ghanan woman's plight NORTHEAS SCRIPT: She says she fled her native country because she was afraid of female circumcision which is custom in her country Last November she gave her first TV interview, outlining her plight, from behind the walls of the Wackenhut detention facility in Queens The immigration and Naturalization service held her there for two years while her fate was being decided Last month a federal appeals court blocked her deportation and she was granted asylum on the ground of gender persecution ((Sot)) ADELAIDE trt:26 Abankwah is only the second woman in US history to get asylum, based on her fears of female circumcision
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Keywords

asylum
female circumcision