Lawsuit: Immigration officials wrongly held man for 7 months

"A Seattle-area man detained by immigration authorities for nearly seven months now claims he was wrongly arrested at Sea-Tac Airport while attempting to fly to Alaska.  Describing his arrest as “an arbitrary and indefensible loss of liberty,” attorneys for Haji Dukureh claims he was unlawfully imprisoned and then ignored after he was arrested by Customs and Border Protection agents on his way to a flight to Alaska to visit his wife.  Dukureh, a Gambian citizen and legal U.S. resident, was arrested at Sea-Tac on Nov. 7, 2008, and remained jailed until late May the following year. His attorneys contend arresting officers lied in written and swore testimony presented during Immigration Court hearings." - Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Nov. 27, 2011.