All Blog Posts Tagged 'U.S. citizen' (5)

The Zack Shahin Case -- U.S. citizen jailed without due process in Dubai -- gets a bit more coverage; not nearly enough, so please share widely.

U.S. citizen Zack Shahin has been held for 4 years in "pre-trial detention" in Dubai. Amid allegations of corruption against various directors and officers of the company he'd previously worked for, Shahin has been  singled out as having participated in draining the company of equity. He has been imprisoned without trial by the Dubai Government under inhumane conditions for over four years, suffering violations of his due process rights under the laws of Dubai.…

Despite a $14,000 reward and FBI involvement -- something extremely rare in cases of U.S. citizens missing abroad -- Aubrey Sacco has not been found, a year after she disappeared while hiking in Nepal. Aubrey was, 23, was last seen April 22, 2010, in a small village known as Lama Hotel on the Langtang trail. Park records show she entered the Langtang…

Here is the U.S. Embassy's poster seeking help finding Hugh Graham Murray, a U.S. citizen now missing in Ecuador. Please share widely. 

I must say, the embassy in Ecuador appears to be much more responsive to such matters than the embassy in Honduras. These processes need to be standardized and optimized!

At least one U.S. citizen is among a group of kidnapped bus passengers whose bodies could lie in a mass grave found in Mexico.U.S. officials confirmed in a statement on Sunday that an American man was one of those abducted by armed attackers on the Mexican border. Investigators said they had found a mass grave of 72 bodies, which could contain the bodies of the travellers, but they were unable to confirm the identities.…