please help him

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From: Alfabet
To: [email protected]
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2004 6:51 AM
Subject: Intisar Bakri Abdulgader info query


Dear Madam, Dear Sir,
Around 19 January I happened to read about the flogging sentence awaiting 16-year old Intisar Bakri Abdulgader. I know that she is only a detail, in view of the terrible war that is tearing your country apart for so many years. But every person is an important detail. I started campaigning in my little country Belgium to save the girl from being flogged. With a relative success, since I got the news in the Belgian newspapers, on national TV and on the Belgian website of Amnesty International.

As I lived in Africa for a couple of years and as I have been together with a Nigerian girl for 7 years, this problem is close to my heart. I want to continue helping Intisar Bakri Abdulgader and other girls in the same situation. In order to be able to do that, it would be necessary to get into contact with her lawyer, who is – if I am not mistaken – Mr. Ghazi Sulayman. I do not know how to contact him though. Can you help me providing me his contact details?

Just to tell you that I am serious, I sent a letter to the Sudanese government through the Sudanese embassy in Belgium that I am prepared to take the flogging on me instead of the girl. I know this may sound naïve, but it was/is not a joke. I sincerely hope her punishment will be commuted in a less harsh one, but if not I am willing to help her in any way I can. At the age of 16 people are still allowed to make mistakes. I do not want her life to end before it really started. Please help me with contact details of her lawyer. Through my political contacts in Belgium, I might be able to do something for her. She deserves a second chance, and her baby needs her. This issue goes way beyond Islam or Christianity. We are talking here of an inhumane punishment for a child with a child.

Thanks for helping me/her.

Bart Deceuninck

Belgium

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