Remember the story about Afghan activist Malalai Joya being denied a visa? She's here.

[cali]

Despite visa delay, Afghan activist Joya to speak at UVM
7:19 AM, Mar. 26, 2011 |


Despite visa problems with U.S. authorities earlier in the week, prominent Afghan women’s rights advocate Malalai Joya will be speaking as scheduled Sunday at the University of Vermont, organizers said.

Natalie Reyes, media liaison for the U.S.-based nonprofit Afghan Women’s Mission, confirmed the outspoken 32-year-old critic of the Taliban, Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the U.S. would launch her speaking tour this weekend.

Joya is a former member of parliament in Afghanistan and the author of “A Woman Among Warlords.” She is scheduled to give a talk at 5 p.m. Sunday at UVM’s Billings Lecture Hall.

The Afghan Women’s Mission reported Joya was told at a visa interview last week that she wouldn’t be allowed into the U.S. because she “lived underground” and was “unemployed.” Joya has survived several assassination attempts.

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[geek tragedy]

1. Unheard of for ICE to bungle something!

Glad she made it.