Abstract
Dolores Wilson sought asylum in the United States to escape the years of persecution that she had suffered in Liberia at the hands of armed forces loyal to the faction led by Charles Taylor. The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) refused to grant that request. My partner, Daniel Williams, and I interviewed Ms. Wilson many times over the course of several months as we prepared for the hearing in which Ms. Wilson could renew her request for asylum by asserting it as a defense to her being deported from the United States. Gradually, she unfolded the horrific details of her story. Ms. Wilson and her family were targeted by Charles Taylor's forces because of her past service in the government of the late President Samuel Doe. In 1990, several months after Charles Taylor invaded Liberia and began a violent campaign to overthrow President Doe, Ms. Wilson and her children fled Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, in a government car. They were on their way to Guinea, but stopped at the Catholic Education Center (CEC), where Ms. Wilson's daughter attended school.
Publication Title
Clinical Law Review
Volume
6
Issue
2
First Page
517
Recommended Citation
Agata Szypszak,
Where in the World Is Dr. Detchakandi? A Story of Fact Investigation,
6
Clinical L. Rev
517
(2000).
Available at:
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/clr/vol6/iss2/5