Rahinah Ibrahim was on her way to a conference in Hawaii when her world was thrown into chaos.
The Malaysian citizen was a doctoral candidate on a student visa at Stanford University, and her 14-year-old daughter was in tow as she traveled to San Francisco International Airport in January 2005. Ibrahim, still recovering from an emergency hysterectomy, requested wheelchair assistance when she got to the ticket counter. The agent instead called the police. "Ibrahim's name had flashed up on the federal no-fly list, a consolidated database of thousands of known or suspected terrorists created in the wake of the 9/11 attacks," Stanford Magazine reported in 2013.
