Government of Guyana should protest
Kaieteur News
April 26, 2007
Attorney-at-law Robert Simels shares the view that the Government of Guyana should file an official protest against the United States for their treatment of its citizen, embattled businessman, Shaheed ‘Roger' Khan.
Khan is being held in a maximum security jail in the US after he was controversially taken there from Trinidad following his expulsion from neighbouring Suriname in June last year.
To date the Guyana government has remained silent on the issue which had sparked protest both locally and in the United States of America.
According to Simels, the Guyana government has been very slow to do anything in Khan's case.
“Everybody knows what Roger Khan did 2002 to 2004 down here and thereafter, but there is no official protest to the United States to this point about the conduct of the United States towards one of its citizens,” Simels said.
“I would say that your government needs to take a much more active role in terms of coming forward to provide testimony for Roger Khan, to make an official protest and to do the things that they should be doing for what he did for them,” Simels told the local media.
Roger Khan has disclosed that he provided support to the local law enforcement agencies during an unprecedented crime wave that began in 2002.