Biography
Asif-ur-Rehman Saffi was a Pakistani visitor detained after a September 30, 2001 arrest at New York’s LaGuardia Airport for an expired tourist visa. Nukewatch’s Summer 2002 account, citing contemporary reporting and a civil-rights lawsuit, says he spent seven months confined in isolation after an immigration judge ordered deportation. The lawsuit alleged that guards beat him unconscious. These are attributed allegations concerning the post-September 11 immigration dragnet; the source establishes no criminal terrorism conviction.
Asif-ur-Rehman Saffi was a Pakistani visitor detained after a September 30, 2001 arrest at New York’s LaGuardia Airport for an expired tourist visa. Nukewatch’s Summer 2002 account, citing contemporary reporting and a civil-rights lawsuit, says he spent seven months confined in isolation after an immigration judge ordered deportation. The lawsuit alleged that guards beat him unconscious. These are attributed allegations concerning the post-September 11 immigration dragnet; the source establishes no criminal terrorism conviction. The Summer 2002 report states seven months of actual isolation confinement ending in March 2002. This is a reported rounded total; the September-to-March chronology does not support a calculated exact day count. The immigration deportation order does not establish an exact deportation day.
