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This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because it obviously meets the GNG. Rivera is notable for the actions stated in the article's lead: "Kimberly Rivera is an Iraq War resister who went AWOL in February 2007 after a year of service with the U.S. military.[2] She was the first female U.S. military deserter to flee to Canada.[3] She was deported from Canada on September 20, 2012 and pled guilty to desertion, receiving a sentence of ten months' imprisonment and a bad-conduct discharge. Amnesty International objected to her detention and designated her a prisoner of conscience." This notability is established by the number of reliable secondary sources which have reported in detail on Rivera: the CBC, the BBC, NBC, Marie Claire, The Globe and Mail, the Washington Post, etc. --Khazar2 (talk) 15:52, 28 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Per wikipedia policy Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Help, I wanted to state that I am Kimberly Rivera's civilian defense attorney (in her US case). I believe my edits in this article have been neutral and objective (I have been a wikipedia editor for many years) but I wanted to state my connection to this case in the interests of fairness. --Jmbranum (talk) 04:34, 30 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the disclosure. Your edits look good to me, and I appreciate the updates. The "Free Kimberly Rivera" website in external links may be borderline, but I think it's okay. I know in most cases promotional/advocacy websites are frowned on as links, but in a case like this, the "cause" is the main thing she's known for--it seems reasonable to include. Cheers Khazar2 (talk) 13:41, 30 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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