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Saturday, January 18, 2003
Judge orders release of three Somali men
Three Somali men who had been scheduled for deportation must be released, a judge ruled in Seattle yesterday. A fourth detainee is still being held.
U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman made an oral ruling Tuesday that the U.S. government could not legally deport people to Somalia because the war-torn East African nation lacks a functioning government.
She followed that up yesterday by issuing a permanent injunction to stop deportations and by certifying that all Somalis in the United States who are subject to deportation represent a legitimate class of people to be protected by the ruling. The decision blocks the deportations of 2,700 Somalis nationwide.
Three Somalis -- Yusuf Ali Ali, Mohamed Aweys and Mohamed Hussein Hundiye -- were ordered released from immigration detention in two business days because they had already been held six months, the limit for holding someone before deporting or releasing them.
Pechman did not release the fourth detainee, Goma Kalif Mohamud, because his case was pending before Judge Barbara Rothstein. Mohamud has been held just over six months in Seattle.
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