AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): IHRC requests all campaigners to write to the Foreign Minister of their country to demand the Nigerian authorities release Sheikh and Mallima immediately and ensure the malicious prosecution of all the members of the Islamic Movement ceases immediately.
The campaign message is as follow:
Background
The court hearing to dismiss the case against Sheikh Zakzaky and Mualima Zeenah will resume on the 1st July 2021. The pair has been enduring a continually disrupted and delayed hearing to dismiss a case initiated against them in Kaduna.
The Sheikh and his wife have been kept in unlawful detention for over five years. The Federal High Court of Nigeria, the highest court in Nigeria, has ordered the Sheikh and his wife’s release, including compensation. However, the state authorities have decided to prosecute the couple and imprison them in the Kaduna State Prison, where living conditions pose a severe threat to their wellbeing, especially in the current pandemic climate.
The FreeZakzaky campaign demands the immediate release of Sheikh and his wife and all those detained after the Zaria Massacre of 2015. For more information and further action, alerts visit the campaign page.
Action required
IHRC requests all campaigners to write to the Foreign Minister of their country to demand the Nigerian authorities release Sheikh and Mallima immediately and ensure the malicious prosecution of all the members of the Islamic Movement ceases immediately.
A model email/letter is also provided should you use it and emails for key countries. Please keep all correspondence polite.
Model Email
Subject: Urgent – Release Sheikh Zakzaky and Muallima Zeenah immediately
Dear [Insert Foreign Minister’s name],
I am writing to inform you about the continued illegal detention of Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky and Muallima Zeenah. Over five years now, the Sheikh and his wife have been kept in unlawful detention.
A High Court ruling ordering the couple’s release in 2017 has never been implemented. And since they were charged in 2018, the Zakzakys’ trial has been adjourned several times, reinforcing the view that Nigerian authorities are abusing the judicial system to keep them in prison in the hope that they will die quietly in custody. Currently hearing to dismiss the case against them resumes on 1st July, at the Kaduna High Court.
I write to ask your office to make immediate interventions with the Nigerian authorities demanding they desist. Your office must seriously consider what punitive actions you can take unilaterally and part of international organisations, if necessary, to facilitate Nigeria’s compliance with fundamental human rights standards.
I trust you will make immediate representations.
I look forward to your response.
Yours sincerely,
[Your name]
Recipient email addresses:
Selected names and email addresses of Ministers of Foreign Affairs can be found below. Please contact us at info@ihrc.org if you have trouble finding the details of your country’s Minister.
United Kingdom
Dominic Raab
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
fcocorrespondence@fco.gov.uk
Turkey
MevlütÇavuşoğlu
Minister of Foreign Affairs
http://www.mfa.gov.tr/contact-us.en.mfa
Australia
Senator Marise Payne
Minister for Foreign Affairs
Senator.Payne@aph.gov.au
Bangladesh
HE Mr. AK Abdul Momen, MP
Foreign Minister
fm@mofa.gov.bd
Bolivia
Diego Pary
Minister of Foreign Affairs
mreuno@rree.gob.bo
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Igor Crnadak
Minister of Foreign Affairs
info_mvpbih@mvp.gov.ba
Canada
The Hon. Chrystia Freeland
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Chrystia.Freeland@parl.gc.ca
Finland
PekkaHaavisto
Minister for Foreign Affairs
umi@formin.fi
France
Jean-Yves Le Drian
The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Development
Web Form
India
Dr.SubrahmanyamJaishankar
Minister of External Affairs
eam@mea.gov.in
Indonesia
RetnoMarsudi
Minister of Foreign Affairs
kontak-kami@kemlu.go.id
Iran
H.E. Mohammad Javad Zarif
Minister of Foreign Affairs
matbuat@mfa.gov.ir
Ireland
Simon Coveney
Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade
simon.coveney@oir.ie
Senator Kamina Johnson-Smith
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade
ps@mfaft.gov.jm
Malaysia
The Hon. Dato’ Saifuddin bin Abdullah
Minister of Foreign Affairs
anifah@kln.gov.my / pro.ukk@kln.gov.my
The Netherlands
Stef Blok
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Web Form
Norway
Ine Marie EriksenSøreide
Minister of Foreign Affairs
utenriksminister@mfa.no
Pakistan
Shah Mehmood Qureshi
Minister of Foreign Affairs
asif.na110@na.gov.pk / fax: 051-9207600
South Africa
Lindiwe Sisulu
Minister of International Relations and Cooperation
info@foreign.gov.za
Spain
Josep Borrell
Minister of Foreign Affairs & Cooperation
se.aex@maec.es
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source : ihrc.org
Thursday
1 July 2021
5:58:43 AM
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Write to your Foreign Minister to put pressure on Nigerian authorities over Sheikh Zakzaky
IHRC requests all campaigners to write to the Foreign Minister of their country to demand the Nigerian authorities release Sheikh and Mallima immediately and ensure the malicious prosecution of all the members of the Islamic Movement ceases immediately.