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Hearing to decide whether Sheku Bayoh chair should resign

时间:2010-12-5 17:23:32  作者:Markets   来源:Music  查看:  评论:0
内容摘要:Comments on the plans can be made until 13 June.

Comments on the plans can be made until 13 June.

Earlier on Thursday, Kenya's foreign affairs ministry issued a statement saying it had not been able to access the activist.It said that despite repeated requests, it had been "denied consular access" or information about him, and expressed concern about his health.

Hearing to decide whether Sheku Bayoh chair should resign

It urged Tanzania to "expeditiously and without delay" allow access, or release him, "in accordance with international legal obligations and diplomatic norms".Later, Kenya's state-funded rights commission said it had received the activist in Kwale county, following his release from Tanzania.KNCHR posted a picture of him alongside other people including his wife, Njeri, and fellow activist Hussein and said he was "in high spirits". The commission said it was planning to transfer him to the capital Nairobi for medical attention.

Hearing to decide whether Sheku Bayoh chair should resign

The activist was reportedly left at the Kenyan border on Thursday morning following his release by the Tanzanian authorities.On Wednesday, his wife told the BBC that she had last heard from him on Monday and had not been able to establish where he was.

Hearing to decide whether Sheku Bayoh chair should resign

"I'm actually concerned for his life. I know my husband, he would have communicated, he'd find a way to call or text me and because he hasn't, makes me very worried about what state he is in," she told the BBC Newsday radio programme.

Kenya's foreign ministry on Thursday expressed similar concerns about the activist's "health, overall well-being and the absence of information regarding his detention".Both the army and the RSF have been accused of war crimes, which they deny.

A literary festival is holding a special event to markThe Stratford Literary Festival will host the "By a Lady: A Celebration of the Wit of Jane Austen" at the town's Crowne Plaza Hotel on Sunday at 19:00 BST.

Sally Phillips and Juliet Stevenson, two actors with links to the novelist's work, will lead a performance of readings from the novels as well as musical interludes.The festival, which is in its 18th year, started on Thursday and ends on Sunday evening with the Austen event.

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