Last summer, when
the American rapper
A$AP was tried in a Swedish court on assault charges, President
Donald Trump dispatched his special envoy for hostage affairs to Sweden.
This week, Secretary
of State Mike Pompeo has traveled to Saudi Arabia, where our family members are
just some of the U.S. citizens and relatives of U.S. citizens being held by the
government on spurious charges, denied due process and even tortured. Why is
there no sign the hostage envoy is
accompanying Pompeo on his trip to Riyadh?
We join Republican and Democratic
members of Congress who have
urged Pompeo to raise the case of Saudi American physician Walid
Fitaihi who — after a brutal
detention — has been barred, along with his family, from leaving the kingdom
until after his trial on vague charges relating to his obtaining of U.S.
citizenship and alleged ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. But we want pressure
and attention to be brought to our loved ones, as well |||READ
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