From The Washington Post-
Retired South African archbishop Desmond Tutu is calling for the urgent release of three American hikers detained for nearly nine months in Iran.
In a statement Wednesday Tutu says two of the hikers are ill and they are all suffering emotionally and are considering a hunger strike. He says Shane Bauer, Josh Fattal and Sarah Shourd have committed no crime.
The three Americans have been held since crossing the border from Iraq in July. Their families say they unintentionally strayed while hiking.
They all attended the University of California at Berkeley. Fattal's family lives near Philadelphia, Bauer's in Pine City, Minnesota, and Shourd's in Oakland, California.
Tutu, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, is the former head of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/28/AR2010042801098.html
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Leave it to Bishop Tutu to take action and more positive actions as he spreads good-will and a sincere desire for justice throughout the WORLD!
Imagine what could be done if EVERY African Global South Bishop and their monied American sponsors focused on the corrupt cultural desperation, the inhumane civil strife, the sexual slavery, the child witch burnings, endless illness and exploitation of their OUR brothers and sisters in Sudan, Nigeria, Uganda, Malawi, Zambia, Burundi, Zimbabwe, The Republic of Congo and beyond? It´s way past time to keep all of OUR EYES set firm on the realities of injustice, discrimination and fear and hate-mongering that have clouded the Anglican Communion for decades.
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