Media Release: Re: Message From Venezuela: A Glimmer of Hope

Media Release:

Re: Message From Venezuela: A Glimmer of hope

What’s more tragic than one innocent person in prison? Five innocent Trinidadians detained in Venezuela since March 19th 2014. Without any court hearings, no appearance in front of a judge and no identifiable law that was broken, we, the five men detained since last year are now seeing a glimmer of hope now that our country, Trinidad and Tobago has pronounced its new Prime Minister, Government elect, Dr. Keith Rowley in the General Elections. Celebrating from our prison cells we feel optimistic that our matter will be looked into and we are asking our Prime Minister not to abandon us like the previous government did.

As time is going by our families are suffering tremendously and our children are growing older without us, their father’s who are locked up in a foreign jail. As we listened to Prime Minister Keith Rowley giving his victory speech from our prison cells we all feel a sense of comfort and a potential end to this difficult situation . We were put in this situation by one government and we can only hold on to hope that this government can pull us out.

All our previous cries and petition for help fell on deaf ears, or rather the ears that put us here in the first place with empty promises of help. We are not asking to override the Venezuela law but we are asking that our Government seek our interest and protocols with regards to our matter. We are innocent men who got caught in the cross fire of politics and propaganda and now we are stuck in a prison with no help. We are calling on our new Prime Minister, new Minister of National Security, new Minister of foreign Affairs and our Trinidad and Tobago Embassy here in Venezuela to do whatever they’re suppose to do when their citizens are faced in this situation and correct what is happening to us.

For Immediate Release:
Date: Sept., 9th 2015

Wade Charles, Dominic Pitlal, Leslie Daisley, Asim Luqman and Andre Battersby
Detained in Venezuela

Media Release

Media Release:

Re: Newsday Article; 'Venezuelans - TT Prisoner Swap.

Waajihatul Islaamiyyah (The Islamic Front) is deeply concerned over what appears to be a brutal and nasty game of political corruption at it's highest level. Referring to an article that appeared in today's Newsday entitled 'Venezuelans - TT Prisoner Swap?'.

Waajihatul Islaamiyyah (The Islamic Front) is calling on the government of Trinidad and Tobago to come clean with respect to these allegations.

Our nationals are not even criminals! They have not yet been charged and further to this has no prior convictions nor criminal records; they are not prisoners they were simply detained and still are; today being a total of 103 days.

In considering the responses of the Foreign Minister; Hon. Winston Dookaran, National Security Minister; Hon. Gary Griffith and Trinidad and Tobago Ambassador in Caracas Mr. Odell Barman it is absolutely clear these allegations are proving to be true. What other reasons could there be? In light of the fact that no evidence has since been brought against these men.

Not Withstanding the damning information provided by Rear Admiral Kelshal we have information that on the 45th day of the detention another bit of damning information was sent to the Venezuelan Authorities indicating that the men had prior terrorism convictions, it was at this time upon request we provided Certificates of Character and recommendations for all five nationals; again proving the Trinidad and Tobago government wrong...

When other countries; America and Canada were getting their citizens out of Venezuela on the 45th day, the Trinidad and Tobago government were further trying to sink our nationals.

A letter was already sent to the Prime Minister asking her intervention, therefore we are  again calling on the government of Trinidad and Tobago in particular the Prime Minister; Hon. Kamla Persad Bissessar  to provide full disclosure of all attempts made thus far in the release of or rather the implicating of our nationals there in Venezuela and to answer two very simple question; do you care? and if you do, what do you intend to do about it?

For Immediate Release:
3rd July 2014

Umar Abdullah
Head of Waajihatul Islaamiyyah (The Islamic Front)
Tel: 1 (868) 365-6253/787-0765

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