![meriam](http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/5/31/1401556718860/meriam-006.jpg)
NOTE THAT NOTHING IN THAT ARTICLE INVOLVES ANY OFFICIAL WORD. IT IS NOT TIME TO LET DOWN OUR GUARD!
HOW HAS THE U.S. GOVERNMENT HELPED SO FAR?
"Both Wani and Mohammed said the US authorities in Khartoum had failed to press for Ibrahim's release. "It's not the US government. When the problem began, the US consul here had a very negative position on this. She was very high-handed. She said, and I quote: 'I don't have time,'" Wani told CNN.
Mohammed said: "The US embassy is not giving help." No one was available for comment at the embassy in Khartoum." From an interview with Daniel Wani husband and father of the imprisoned and condemned : http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/31/world-leaders-campaign-sudanese-womans-death-sentence-meriam-ibrahim
THERE WAS A STATEMENT FROM THE U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT:
The state department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said on Thursday that US officials in Khartoum had conveyed grave concerns about the case to the Sudanese foreign minister this week, and were closely monitoring the appeals process.
"We're doing everything we can to push for her release," she said."
Unfortunately we have yet to see or hear from the President of the one nation whose tiny children (one a new born) are imprisoned and may be forced to watch their mother be tortured and hanged. Dr. Ibrahim would have been safely in the United States before any of this happened had the U.S. Immigration authorities timely processed her husband's application to bring his wife and children into the United States. If you think that as a U.S. citizen that you have a right to contract a legal marriage while working over seas, and that the Children of that marriage are entitled to U.S. citizen ship and your wife to permanent residency; techno- legally you are right, but you can trust the U.S. Bureaucracy to totally screw that up for you. .
MORE FROM THE BRITISH:
"The British Foreign Office has described the sentence as barbaric, and summoned the Sudanese charge d'affaires to hear its "deep concern". The UN, Canada and the Netherlands have also called on the Sudanese authorities to overturn the convictions and release Ibrahim".
"The archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, said he wholeheartedly endorsed a statement from the Christian Muslim Forum in Britain calling for the sentence to be rescinded."
We will keep you posted
No comments:
Post a Comment