Foreign Ministry Continues with Efforts to Release Kriznar

Ljubljana/Khartoum, 07 August

The Slovenian Foreign Ministry on Monday assured that it is doing everything in its power to secure the release of Tomo Kriznar, President Janez Drnovsek's special envoy to the western Sudanese province of Darfur.

According to the press release, the ministry has been cooperating with the German embassy in Khartoum which represents the current EU presiding country Finland in Sudan.
The embassy provided Kriznar with a lawyer. Drnovsek's envoy is also to be visited in prison by the German ambassador to Sudan on Tuesday or Wednesday.
As the ministry furthermore explained, it again called on the Sudanese Foreign Ministry last week to speed up the procedure.
The trial against Kriznar, who was arrested on 20 July for lacking a valid visa for Sudan and is also accused of spying, is to resume on Tuesday or Wednesday in the town of El Fashir in the west of Sudan.
The evidence against Kriznar includes photos of an alleged official government document given to him by Darfur rebels. The document contains orders by the Sudanese authorities to kill everyone who would set out to unearth the mass graves in Darfur, even UN workers.
At the beginning of August, Kriznar admitted that he entered Darfur without a valid visa as he was denied one by the Sudanese embassy in Vienna. He, however, refused all allegations about being a spy.
He believes the Sudanese authorities are also aware that he is not a spy, yet, they are still trying to present him as such.

Foreign Ministry Continues with Efforts to Release Kriznar

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