Dont miss Nick Baumanns story up today at Mother Jones on the American who refused to become an FBI informant, and whose life was then made miserable by the government. Heres how it starts: It was after 10 p.m. on July 8, 2009, when Sandra Mansour answered her cellphone to the panicked voice of her daughter-in-law, Nasreen. A week earlier, Nasreen and her husband, Naji Mansour, had been detained in the southern Sudanese city of Juba by agents of the countrys internal security bureau. In the days since, Sandra had been desperately trying to find out where the couple was being held. Now Nasreen was calling to say that shed been released—driven straight to the airport and booked on a flight to her native Kenya—but Naji remained in custody. He was being held in a dark, squalid basement cell, with a bucket for a bathroom and a dense swarm of mosquitoes that attacked his body as he slept. You have to get him out of there, Nasreen said. But she was unfamiliar with Juba and could only offer the barest details about where theyd been held. Hes in a blue building. Youve seen it. Its not far from your hotel. -Erika
Posted on: Thu, 01 May 2014 16:00:02 +0000
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