Graduate Student Sues Georgetown U. for Alleged Racial-Profiling Incident
Washington — An Iranian-American graduate student at Georgetown University has sued the institution, accusing it of racial profiling when it detained him at a graduation ceremony in May 2007.
Kambiz Fattahi — a student in Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service and a dual citizen of the United States and Iran — says he was watching the ceremony in the university’s main gymnasium when a public-safety officer insisted that he leave and told him he was “making some people nervous.” According to the lawsuit, two officers questioned Mr. Fattahi in a public hallway, searching his backpack and making sarcastic remarks about “Babylon and the Tigris River.”
Mr. Fattahi filed suit on Tuesday against the university, the two officers, and the director of their department. He alleges several violations of his rights under the Constitution and the District of Columbia’s Human Rights Act, and he seeks a revision of Georgetown’s antidiscrimination policies, related training […]
Source: Sara Lipka
May 1st, 2008 at 8:58 am
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