Woman Cuffed and Interrogated for Two Days for Overstaying a Previous Visa

fearless_fx · Dec 18, 2007

REYKJAVIK, Iceland - Iceland's government has asked the U.S. ambassador to explain the treatment of an Icelandic tourist who says she was held in shackles before being deported from the United States.

The woman, Erla Osk Arnardottir Lillendahl, 33, was arrested Sunday when she arrived at JFK airport in New York because she had overstayed a U.S. visa more than 10 years earlier.

Lillendahl, 33, had planned to shop and sightsee with friends, but endured instead what she has claimed was the most humiliating experience of her life.

She contended she was interrogated at JFK airport for two days, during which she was not allowed to call relatives. She said she was denied food and drink for part of the time, and was photographed and fingerprinted.

On Monday, Lillendahl claimed, her hands and feet were chained and she was moved to a prison in New Jersey, where she was kept in a cell, interrogated further and denied access to a phone.

She was deported Tuesday, she told reporters and wrote on her Internet blog.

On Thursday, Foreign Minister Ingibjorg Solrun Gisladottir told U.S. Ambassador Carol van Voorst that the treatment of Lillendahl was unacceptable.

"In a case such as this, there can be no reason to use shackles" Gisladottir said. "If a government makes a mistake, I think it is reasonable for it to apologize, like anyone else."

Van Voorst has contacted the officials at JFK airport and asked them to provide a report on Lillendahl's case, Gisladottir said.
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a link to the woman's blog http://eggmann.blog.is/blog/eggmann/entry/389611/

this is fuken ridiculous, im headed through US customs in 2 days, if i get arrested for days and have my rectum searched and stuff il make sure to post all the details here. not looking forward to the US hospitality lol

Dan · Dec 18, 2007

sometimes i dont understand why authorities dont compensate for mistakes or errors being made on their part..

sometimes they do but not a lot of the time..

fearless_fx · Dec 18, 2007

iceland only has a population of like 400 thousand people... im pretty sure most of them will be avoiding traveling to the US after this incident.

[N] · Dec 18, 2007

damn talking about a nightmare vacation...some fucked up laws and situation she went through...

snowpear · Dec 18, 2007

That's just plain crazy! But i'm sure this doesn't happen to EVERYONE!

wind2000 · Dec 19, 2007

Hmmm.... its just a blog, did it really happen?

reno · Dec 19, 2007

fearless, looking forward to ur blog abt ur experience =P

tho wateva happens wen u go to beijing etc, don't think we'll get to hear abt it properly lol
for all we know, its probably blocked by the great (fire)wall of china =)

Woman Cuffed and Interrogated for Two Days for Overstaying a Previous Visa

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