You turn to us for voices you won't hear anywhere else.

Sign up for Democracy Now!'s Daily Digest to get our latest headlines and stories delivered to your inbox every day.

Trump Travel Ban Preventing Iranian Woman from Seeking Life-Saving Treatment in U.S.

HeadlineAug 10, 2018

An Iranian woman with a life-threatening brain disease is being denied entry into the United States for treatment by Trump’s travel ban. A Louisville, Kentucky, doctor, who is the first in the world to find a cure for the brain disease, has offered to treat Marzieh Taheri, but the Trump administration has so far refused to approve her for an exemption waiver from the travel ban.

The original content of this program is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. Please attribute legal copies of this work to democracynow.org. Some of the work(s) that this program incorporates, however, may be separately licensed. For further information or additional permissions, contact us.

Non-commercial news needs your support

We rely on contributions from our viewers and listeners to do our work.
Please do your part today.
Make a donation
Top