In The News: RECENT | ARCHIVE

Habeas Project client wins new trial
(Modesto Bee, July 4, 2005)

Free Battered Women member Olivia Wang wins the Jefferson Award for Public Service (watch the CBS 5-San Francisco video about Olivia)
(San Francisco Chronicle, June 25, 2005 & CBS 5, July 6, 2005)

NY's Gay City News article about the Habeas Project and Free Battered Women
(Gay City News, June 2, 2005)

USA Today article about incarcerated survivor Linda Lee Smith and others
(USA Today, May 26, 2005)

Sacramento Bee article about Free Battered Women's Assembly Bill regarding intimate partner battering and its effects
(Sacramento Bee, April 7, 2005)

Womens eNews honors Free Battered Women member Olivia Wang as one of 21 Leaders for the 21st Century
(Women's eNews, Jan. 4, 2005)

Flashpoints interview with released survivor Maria Suarez
(Flashpoints, Dec. 7, 2004)

Article about Snapped, Oxygen's harmful tv series about women who kill their partners
(Women's eNews, Dec. 7, 2004)

Solana Beach woman, 61, may get new trial for 1991 slaying
(North County Times, Nov. 1, 2004)

Abused Woman's Freedom Could Herald New Era
(Bay Area Business Women, Nov., 2004)

Project Coordinator Andrea Bible interviewed about Senate Bill 1385
(Flashpoints Radio, Oct. 26, 2004)

Law Gives Battered Inmates in California New Hope
(Women's E-News, Sept. 23, 2004)

Battered Women's Law OKd; Schwarzenegger signs bill giving more inmates the ability to challenge their sentences using proof that they were coerced by their abusers
(L.A. Times, Sept. 18, 2004)

Governor OKs bill for battered women/More who killed abusers can challenge sentences
(San Jose Mercury News, Sept. 18, 2004)

Governor OK with murderer going free: Woman claimed self-defense in '86 slaying of boyfriend [Henrietta Briones]
(San Francisco Chronicle, August 27, 2004)

Governor OKs Parole for Battered Woman [Henrietta Briones]
(Press-Enterprise, August 28, 2004)

Listen to interview with released survivor Jeri Becker & Project Coordinator Andrea Bible on KFOG
(KFOG, Aug 9, 2004)

Listen to a radio interview about the Habeas Project on KPFA's Flashpoints
(Flashpoints, Pacifica News, July 5, 2004)

Suarez, Free from Prison, Pushes for Law Reform
(Women's E-News, July 1, 2004)

Abused Woman Faces Deportation [Maria Suarez]
(L.A. Times, Apr. 24, 2004)

Parolee Appeals Plan to Deport Her
(L.A. Times, Apr. 27, 2004)

Former sex slave ordered deported
(San Gabriel Valley News, Apr. 23, 2004)

Two women, released from prison, deported
(The Press-Enterprise, Apr. 23, 2004)

New chance at parole: The prison board says Henrietta Briones was a battered woman who should be set free
(The Press-Enterprise , Apr. 1, 2004)

'I can't believe the beauty' [Jeri Becker]
(San Francisco Chronicle, Apr. 5, 2004)

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