Angelina Jolie prevented from visiting Sudan

 Saturday, June 14, 2014


Oscar winner, Angelina Jolie. Sudan has banned the America star Angelina Jolie from entering the country to attend an event on ending the violence against women in Sudan, the British embassy in Khartoum disclosed on Friday. PHOTO/BANG SHOWBIZ   

By Mohamed Amin

KHARTOUM, 

In Summary

• Jolie has addressed the event through a video, criticizing the government of Sudan for sentencing a Christian woman to hang for apostasy.
• She called on the international community to intensify diplomatic efforts to help create a single, unified, broadly inclusive peace process across all Sudan, warning that Sudan’s silent suffering is getting worse.
• She further accused Sudan government of wresting control of natural resources and transferring the wealth of the country to top-level regime officials.

Sudan has banned the America star Angelina Jolie from entering the country to attend an event on ending the violence against women in Sudan, the British embassy in Khartoum disclosed on Friday.

The British ambassador at Khartoum Peter Tibber said at the event on Friday that the Sudanese government has rejected to give the Hollywood star and the UN good willing envoy an entry visa as she was invited to attend the event which organized by some western embassies in Khartoum with other Sudanese civil societies.

The British ambassador revealed that Sudan has refused to sign the international declaration of commitment to end violence in the conflict areas, calling on Khartoum government to respect its international obligations of the human rights field.

Ms. Jolie has addressed the event through a video, criticizing the government of Sudan for sentencing a Christian woman to hang for apostasy.

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“Khartoum should respect the fundamental right to freedom of religion, and to repeal its laws that ban people from converting their faith, as they are inconsistent with its 2005 Interim Constitution, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights” she urged.

She called on the international community to intensify diplomatic efforts to help create a single, unified, broadly inclusive peace process across all Sudan, warning that Sudan’s silent suffering is getting worse.

She further accused Sudan government of wresting control of natural resources and transferring the wealth of the country to top-level regime officials.

“They stole wealth then funds the Janjaweed, the internal security organs, and the Sudanese Air Force, and ensures that those brutal instruments of control are held by a small circle of ruling party officials” she claimed.

The Sudanese authorities did not comment on the Jolie’s speech.   

Her appeal comes in a time more than 300 international government ministers concluded a Global Summit in London to end sexual violence in the war zones.

Jolie has opened the summit which recommended to the international leaders to work together to eliminate sexual violence in war zones.

Jolie, who serves as a goodwill ambassador for a U.N. refugee agency, has many times visited refugees and IDPS camps in Darfur region.

She is also a founder of the Satellite Sentinel Project created in 2011 by the American star George Clooney which dogs a forensic investigation on the Sudanese government violation in Darfur, South Kordofan and Blue Nile states.