Sama Ebrahimi Bajgani and her fiance, Alireza Doroudi, had just spent an evening celebrating the Persian new year at the ...

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Other Iranian students say they have been ... so she suspects she is no longer safe in her home country. Now, she has those same doubts in Alabama. “All of a sudden it feels like we’re ...

An Iranian doctoral student detained in Alabama on immigration charges will self-deport more than six weeks after his arrest due to “legal uncertainty” and the possibility of a “prolonged ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — An Iranian mechanical engineering student at the University of Alabama has decided to self-deport after six weeks in a Louisiana detention center despite the government dropping a ...

Sama Bajgani and Alireza Doroudi are doctoral students at The University of Alabama from Iran ... “We endured a lot to come to a safe place, to just pursue a degree. And then this happened to us," ...

School systems in Alabama are developing plans to implement a new law that bans cell phone usage in public schools.