2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, April 30, 2002
LOCAL
Government request denied in Haddad case
By Shabina S. Khatri
Daily Staff Reporter
The American Civil Liberties Union, Rep.
John Conyers, (D-Detroit) and two Detroit
newspapers won another small victory in the
Rabih Haddad case last week when a panel of
judges on the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals
denied the government's motion for a stay on
Haddad's hearings.
ACLU legal director Michael Steinberg, who
spearheaded a group that filed a lawsuit against
the government to open Haddad's court hear-
ings, said the verdict is a positive sign.
"I feel very optimistic. The trial judge
issued a very strong opinion that secret hear-
ings are odious to a democracy," he said. "We
won. This means any hearings held between
now and the decision made by the Court of
son's p
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tragedy. They will be flying back of the ac
tomorrow, and Yeo's funeral is himself.
expected to take place Thursday. "Suic
The family has asked the girl's you can
friends not to talk to the press about said a
their daughter's death until after the Joseph
funeral. Arbor v
Though car accidents can result in mous.
trauma to the head and though head "It's'
trauma can cause changes in a per- traumat
Appeals must he open."
The government appealed to the court after "We're hopeful. The government has a very slim
U.S. District Court Judge Nancy Edmunds y
ruled in favor of open immigration hearings in chance o prevailing on appeal.
Haddad's case in early April and asked that the - Ashraf Nubar
ruling be held until the 6th Circuit makes its
final decision. A lawyer of local Muslim leader Rabih Hadda
Haddad, an Ann Arbor Muslim leader
arrested on a visa violation nearly five months Haddad's immigration hearing, which was the Court will hear oral arguments by mid-Ma
ago, is currently being held in the Chicago postponed after Judge Edmund's decision, has and is expected to make a decision by late Mayc
Metropolitan Correctional Center. Though been rescheduled again for June 19. early June.
Haddad is thus far being held on a visa viola- Nazih Hassan, president of the Muslim "We're hopeful. The government has a ver
tion charge, he might appear in front of a Community Association in Ann Arbor and one slim chance of prevailing on appeal," he sai
grand jury to answer questions regarding pos- of Haddad's friends, said the government is try- "This is just a political game. The govert
sible terrorist connections to the Global Relief ing to stall until the 6th Circuit makes its final ment is trying to justify the incarceration of
Foundation charity he helped establish. Glob- decision. respected member of the Ann Arbor commi
al Relief's Chicago offices were raided by "They're just buying time by continuously nity when there's no basis for his detentio
federal agents the same day as Haddad's arrest postponing the hearings," he said. We don't know what claims the governmer
in December. Ashraf Nubani, one of Haddad's lawyers, said is actually making, so how can we respond?'
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ion, those in the medical
on speculate that the guilt
ccident, caused Leong to kill
;ide is not something that
ever know the answers to,"
registered nurse at St.
's Mercy Hospital in Ann
who asked to remain anony-
very likely an emotional
that drove him to a suicide."
CHURCH
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"In 1993, in my first year as your
pastor, I received a note from a former
member of our church who no longer
lived in the area," Lindvall wrote in the
e-mail. "The note indicated that he had
been sexually abused by Donald
Bryant decades earlier when he was a
teenager at our church." Lindvall said
the member of the congregation asked
him to remain silent on the issue and
L11U4 111 V Y V Ala . iiaiia uv 14aaaLaua vaavaa"
desire to evade responsibility.
no attempt at any kind of co
said Edward Kosher, the c
lawyer, at the forum. Koshe
that, as part of the church's it
tion, he has made many calls1
bers of the congregation. "In
interviews, I've started with t
question: Are you surprised
you have heard about Mr. Br
every case, the answer has be
absolutely."'
University spokeswomt
Peterson said though m
Bryant's records have been
from University files, ther
record of any issues like t
heard about in the News."
"We feel pretty confidenti
that in the time he was here, w
receive, or find any evidence
plaints against him," she said.
not aware of anything like that
Lindvall said that although 1
sonally deeply saddened by
alleged actions, it was impo
There is church members to remember the
iver-up," importance of forgiving.
hurch's "(Bryant) brought incredibly beauti-
r added ful music to this congregation. This
nvestiga- allegation ... is not all a person is,"
to mem- Lindvall said. "No one is outside the
all those limits of God's grace."
he same Neither the University nor the First
by what Presbyterian Church used strict hiring
yant? In policies during the years Bryant was
en, 'yes, hired, in 1969 and 1970, respectively.
"There is no sort of across-the-board
an Julie policy about doing background checks
tany of on possible employees," Peterson said.
removed Bryant is not the only Ann Arbor pas-
e is "no tor connected to sexual abuse allega-
he ones tions. The Ann Arbor News reported
Sunday that St. Thomas Rev. Timothy
n saying Crowley was removed from the church
e did not in 1993 after a church member accused
of, com- him of sexual abuse. Crowley is now an
"We are administrative assistant in the Archdio-
." cese of Anchorage, Ala. Like Bryant
he is per- Crowley has neverbeen charged.
Bryant's Both Crowley and Bryant have
rtant for denied all allegations.
not reveal his identity.
Going to or from the Airport? sa result of the accusation, Bryant
Goin to or fom he A rpo t . was relieved of his position with the
First Presbyterian Church in 1994.
"Donald was not at all eager to retire,"
Call Lindvall said.
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either case, but at a public forum held
Wednesday, Lindvall said he still felt
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