Imtiaz Sooliman – Comment from Gift of the Givers about Shiraaz Mohamed’s escape

The gift of the givers, says photographer Shiraz Mohammed may

be free. His family is not commenting at the state, but says

it will keep the country informed once it's confirmed independently

that he's safe. Mohammed was taken hostage in January of 2017 and I'm

joined now on the line by MJ Suleman from the gift of the

givers. Im just thank you so much for your time. Could you put us in

the picture and just give us details on how it's come, come

about that you were able to confirm or or get knowledge of

Shiraz? Shiraz being free

to stand last night. I want you to this afternoon. Actually, we got a

call from somebody in a southern part of safety. I'm not going to

give a lot of details, because there's a lot of other people to

protect on the other side, but we will be given a call and said, We

have Shiraz Muhammad.

So we said, you know, can you give more explanation? So they said he

escaped from where he was. He was wondering around in different

areas, and then we found him in a group of us, because we knew about

his case, because of our intervention from the beginning

2017

and we made a lot of awareness. Thank you very much, but we're not

involved in the case anymore. However, before you proceed, we'd

like to know if you really do have Shiraz and not something else,

because a lot of people have been taken off. It could be that it's

family health, but

there's no reason we need to know that so that we could inform his

family. Could you send us a picture? So they said, no problem.

And immediately they sent a picture and we confirmed that it

was Shiraz. They said, Look, he's safe. I said. But as

they said, that fight later that evening, last night, around 11pm

they sent us a second photograph. They said, This photograph is not

at night. We're just taking it a little earlier. We have decided

amongst ourselves that in his interest and his safety, and of

course, he's also afraid of being which is so understandable, you

can't trust anybody knowing what has happened to you for almost

three years, we decided to move him across the border. He is now

safely with Turkish intelligence, and we just informing you. And

please, you know what to do after this. So we said, and there were

other sorts of information that sort of confirmed that says that

they indeed be having. And again, I cannot give details about that.

And then he said, Okay. And immediately we sent a message to

minister Fernand last night, to other officials in deco to say

that Shiraz is now safe. He's the Turkish intelligence and therefore

should take over the kids. We also, of course, also inform the

family and send the pictures to say that Shiraz is safe. He's in

tech enough to wait for government to bring back. All right, so what

is the process going forward? You've indicated the fact that you

are the initial point of call the cases now, because Shiraz is said

to be in the custodial with under the care of Turkish intelligence.

What is the feedback regarding dirko and the process that they

now engage in in terms of getting back their SL African citizen? It

shouldn't be too complicated, because even following the new

news in the last two weeks, remember of them is living in ISIS

area. This case is completely different, but those foreigners

are coming from ISIS area. Turkey is processing them and want to

send them back home. And indeed, they have been sending them home.

So obviously, from the turkey point of view, there is a

willingness to send any foreign nationals off. Whenever they come

from not involved in area, they went voluntary to full on the

situation of the difficulty of deputies. The photo general, and

he likes to tell human into stories. So what requires the

Sahara government to protect Turkey government, or to be the

other way around taking intelligence may call our empathy,

but of course, today is close. We don't know what process, but I can

tell you the experience we had, but jolani Koki and Stephen

McGowan. Okay, fantastic. Thank you. That's unfortunately all the

time we have right now, so we'll leave it right there. That was

India Suleiman from the gift of the giver.