ACLU Client Akif Rahman will be featured on a special PBS series, "America at the Crossroads", on April 18th, 2007 at 9pm Central. Please tune in for the episode, "America's Muslims."

From the June 2005 story about Mr. Rahman's case:
After a nearly six-hour ordeal at the United States-Canada border, during which he was subjected to unnecessary excessive force during a body search and shackled to a chair for approximately three hours while isolated from his wife and children, the owner of a suburban Chicago computer software company and his family today asked a federal district court to order the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to remedy policies that caused this, and three other unlawful detentions, because he was misidentified. Akif Rahman, a native born United States citizen, today described the May 8, 2005 detention at the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel as the most harrowing and frightening example in an escalating series of detentions that began fifteen months ago.