Advocacy

Government Declines to Appeal Ruling Requiring It to Give Scholar a Visa or Explain Why

In a case considered a bellwether of United States policy toward foreign scholars, the government has decided not to appeal a court ruling ordering it to either issue a visa to Tariq Ramadan, a prominent Swiss Muslim scholar, or provide good reasons for not doing so.

http://chronicle.com/daily/2006/08/2006082504n.htm

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