Desperate plea over uganda arrests
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Terror claim angers muslims
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Sa diplomats to visit uganda detainees
The reason for the detention of two South Africans in Uganda would only be known after the SA High Commissioner there has visited them, hopefully on Monday, the Department of Foreign Affairs said.
Spokesperson Ronnie Mamoepa said that so far no charges had been put to the two relief workers, and further information and decisions on a course of action would only be known once this visit had taken place.
Mufti Hussain Bhayat and Haroon Saley were detained last week during a stopover at Entebbe International Airport in Kampala.
Uganda’s New Vision online newspaper said they were taken in for questioning by a joint anti-terrorism task force. However their family’s lawyer Yousha Tayob said he had not received any firm reason for their detention.
The Muslim Judicial Council is concerned that the two may be the subjects of Islamophobic profiling in the wake of an international anti-terror crackdown. – Sapa
Published on the Web by IOL on 2008-08-25 11:26:41
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Uganda confirms arrests
The South African high commission in Uganda is applying for permission to visit two South Africans held in prison in that country.
South African foreign affairs spokesperson Ronnie Mamoepa said on Sunday that the commission would provide the two with consular assistance.
Islamic relief workers Mufti Hussain Bhayat and Haroon Saley were reportedly detained early on Monday last week during a stopover at Entebbe International Airport in Kampala.
Uganda’s New Vision online newspaper said they were taken for questioning by a joint anti-terrorism task force.
The Muslim Judicial Council believe they are being subjected to Islam-phobic profiling and the council and the Media Review Network wanted Intelligence Minister Ronnie Kasrils to intervene.
The two work for Crescent of Hope, an Islamic organisation that does charitable and relief work, and had made the stopover in Uganda on their way home to South Africa from Kenya.
Mamoepa said on Sunday that the South African high commission in Uganda had been officially informed by the Ugandan authorities of the arrest of the two, along with two Ugandan nationals. The two Ugandans had since been released. – Sapa
Published on the Web by IOL on 2008-08-24 12:11:27
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