Taking to Twitter, the POW's father wrote: "Ten years in Guantánamo: Tunisian families hope for loved ones' release," posting a video from the Guardian, in which family members lobby for the release of five Tunisians held at Guantanamo Bay.
She campaigned for an improvement to his conditions and formed committees to lobby for his release.
(On Web sites like tvshowsondvd.com, viewers lobby for early release like a pack of public defenders).
Desperate, the family used a connection with the global head of the Jesuit order – the "black pope", Pedro Arrupe – to lobby for her release.
I think British ambassadors and diplomats in Myanmar, Cuba, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, China or Russia would it harder to lobby for the release of dissidents or stand up for the free press.
Bashir pardoned Gibbons, 54, of Liverpool, after meeting with two Muslim members of Britain's House of Lords, Nazir Ahmed and Sayeeda Warsi, who had traveled to the predominantly Muslim African nation to lobby for her release.
BP has said that its lobbyist, a former UK intelligence agent, did not specifically lobby for the release of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, jailed in Scotland for the 1988 Lockerbie bomb.
Ms. Cabrera and Ms. Santiago were typical of the people who wait in the building's lobby for the release of husbands, boyfriends and sons who had been arrested.
PAGE A6 CHINA BLOCKING DISSIDENT ACTIVITY Two United States representatives who were in Beijing to lobby for the release of more than 700 political prisoners had hoped to have dinner with a group of Chinese human rights lawyers.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton had proposed sending various people to lobby for the release of two journalists before Bill Clinton emerged as the preferred choice, people briefed on the talks said.
She proposed sending various people to Pyongyang — including Mr. Clinton's vice president, Al Gore — to lobby for the release of the women, before Mr. Clinton emerged as the preferred choice of the North Koreans, people briefed on the talks said.
