{"id":36209,"date":"2018-12-07T16:07:49","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T16:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/intercardiff\/?p=36209"},"modified":"2018-12-07T16:07:49","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T16:07:49","slug":"cardiff-leads-charge-bring-abducted-girl-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/politics-social-justice\/cardiff-leads-charge-bring-abducted-girl-home","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff AM Leads Charge to Bring Abducted Girl Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1986 Safia Saleh, then just 18 months old, was illegally abducted and taken to Yemen by her father.<\/p>\n<p>Her mother Jackie feared she would never see Safia or her two other daughters again.<\/p>\n<p>But in 1991 her eldest daughter Rihanna sent her a letter in Arabic, which Jackie had translated and with delight realised her daughters had found her.<\/p>\n<p>Jackie has been able to keep in contact with Safia and was even able to visit her daughter despite safety warnings from the Home Office.<\/p>\n<p>However since the civil war erupted in 2015, Jackie fears for their safety.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_36432\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36432\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-36432\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/12\/yemen-625x352.jpg\" alt=\"Map of Yemeni Civl War scenes of conflict\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36432\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-36432\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/12\/yemen-625x352.jpg\" alt=\"Map of Yemeni Civl War scenes of conflict\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><\/noscript> Yemen has been in Civil War since 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The city of Aden in which Safia resides has become the operations headquarters for anti-houti rebel forces and as such has seen targeted attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Safia and her children have also contracted Typhoid living in squalid conditions created in the turmoil.<\/p>\n<p>Neil McEvoy, AM for South Wales Central was contacted by Jackie in November this year.<\/p>\n<p>He has since helped raised over \u00a37,000 for the safe return of Safia and her family.<\/p>\n<p>In an address to the Welsh Assembly Mr McEVoy said,\u00a0&#8220;The one roadblock is bureaucracy. Safia is a UK citizen, she has a birth certificate, but she does not have a UK passport and no one seems able to help with this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The government has said there is no evacuation process in places for British citizens in Yemen, in line with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office&#8217;s policy.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_36465\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36465\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-36465\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/12\/YemenProtest-625x352.jpg\" alt=\"Protester\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36465\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-36465\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/12\/YemenProtest-625x352.jpg\" alt=\"Protester\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><\/noscript> The UK&#8217;s trade with Saudi Arabia has aggravated the war. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/alisdare\/\"> Alisdare Hickson<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Safia&#8217;s children qualify for British Citizenship since she was born in Cardiff.<\/p>\n<p>However McEvoy anticipates some issues to arise from her husband&#8217;s Yemeni nationality, as immigration officers may question his identity if he tries to enter the UK.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When people come into our office, we help them&#8221; McEvoy said.\u00a0&#8220;We hope for co-operation and the issuing of a passport.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On the speedy success of the fundraiser Mr McEvoy said&#8221; The public has been really generous.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;When people come into our office, we help them&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":403,"featured_media":36463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"coauthors":[640],"class_list":["post-36209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics-social-justice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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