Get me the President!

I've just drafted a letter detailing Ali Abdulemam's situation and the ramifications should he be successfully prosecuted. The letter is meant to address the public officials of Bahrain's Western allies.

The point of the letter is to engender a discussion at the top levels and to ensure that those who call for greater freedoms in the Middle East are aware of the path this event is taking us.

To anyone and everyone reading this and residing outside of Bahrain, Please download the following letter and forward it to any and all public officials that you are able to address.

At the bottom of the post is a modified letter for Bahrain's ambassador to your country. Please make use of that one too. We'll work on getting the names of all the ambassadors.

If you want more details about the matter, please read this.

Download presslaws.rtf

This is just the body of the letter. Please feel free to add any formatting you feel necessary (salutations, dateline, reference line, cc's, etc.).

I didn't have time to obtain a technical translation of the specific charges. If I get my hands on it within the next day or two, I'll make the necessary updates.

Send the letter to congressmen, senators, members of parliament and senior officials of your Foreign Affairs ministries (State Department for all y'all Yankees).

For Condoleeza Rice, press 1

For Tony Blair, press 2

For Alexander Downer, press 3

For your US Senator, press 4

For your US Congressperson, press 5

For the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs, press 6

For the Canadian Parliament, press 7

As an added bonus, here's a letter you can send to Bahrain's ambassadors in your locality! And here's where you can find them!

Download presslaws_ambassador.rtf

Comments

[Chan'ad]

Good work DIB!

[homer simpson]

Good work on the letter. I just have one precaution that might need to be addressed. Apparently this thorny issue of contacting foreign officials has been a matter of debate even within the opposition in Bahrain. The National Gathering, one of the opposition members, has voiceforously objected to any sort of foreign assistance. Last year around this time as well the opposition met with the government and they agreed not to hold demonstrations or attract international attention so close to the formula 1. This is why the opposition's actions outside of bahrain have been rather subdued.

Anyway, this was not meant as a spoiler, just something to keep into consideration!

[John]

Noted! Thanks for the tip. I hoped the tone of the letter would be clear that we're not looking for confrontation.

I just want world leaders to understand that the progress of democracy in the Middle East is something that their citizens are keenly interested in. The outcomes of this matter have repercussions all over the world. The world has a stake in the bridging of trust of between The ruling family and the people of Bahrain.

Reiterating that stake I doubt would constitute interference. I'm all for the F1 race continuing without a hitch. Believe you me, if anything happened to the F1 on my account, Mahmood would be the first to hang me from the top of the pearl roundabout.

I hope that by going through diplomatic channels, the matter can be better handled than with a screaming mob showing up on the 6 o'clock news.

Thanks again!

[Fayrouz]

I posted the info on my blog too. I hope they get released very soon.

[Curt]

Just used your letter as a basis for my own to both the Bahraini ambassador to the US and the US ambassador to Bahrain. Thanks.

[abood guitar]

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well ...this is my research work for the next 6-9 months

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Baraka Buy 3
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[I_Hate_Indians]

Why not that some IT guy out there in Bahrain hubs information about people / Business and the what the complain is all about.
This will help stop crap happening here.
The user either puts the complaint (Short) and the person / Business they are compalining about...so that in the long term people can use that as in not to deal with this person...etc

I would think that Batelco Tops the statistics by now... :)