The whole of Britain has recently been shocked and appalled at the injustices perpetrated against one of her Britannic Majesty's subjects by the so-called justice system of the US.
This innocent victim of circumstance, who was simply doing their job and attempting to help others, has been accused of all kinds of heinous crimes and threatened with unspeakable punishments. So Terminator says: Free Louise Woodw - I mean, Ivan Pope.
The boss of domain name company NetNames has been shabbily treated. He just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. That place was Libya. Not that Pope actually goes there, you understand, but he has been known to register the odd Libyan .ly domain name.
Unfortunate.ly, one of them was registered for a UK-based company owned by a Libyan. This, allied to the fact that NetNames has a US sister company, led some people with an axe to grind to malicious.ly question whether the company had contravened a UN trade embargo on Libya.
Questions were asked in Congress - remember, breaking these embargoes can apparently carry a long jail sentence in the US - but happil.ly, the UK government is satisfied that NetNames acted legal.ly. So Revolution appeals to Congress to act merciful.ly and allow Pope his freedom this Christmas. He has undoubted.ly been the victim of terrible persecution, although it could just be that the Americans took exception to his Russian-sounding Christian name.
Terminator - This Pope can't count his Xmas blessings.
The whole of Britain has recently been shocked and appalled at the injustices perpetrated against one of her Britannic Majesty's subjects by the so-called justice system of the US.
This innocent victim of circumstance, who was simply doing their job and attempting to help others, has been accused of all kinds of heinous crimes and threatened with unspeakable punishments. So Terminator says: Free Louise Woodw - I mean, Ivan Pope.
The boss of domain name company NetNames has been shabbily treated. He just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. That place was Libya. Not that Pope actually goes there, you understand, but he has been known to register the odd Libyan .ly domain name.
Unfortunate.ly, one of them was registered for a UK-based company owned by a Libyan. This, allied to the fact that NetNames has a US sister company, led some people with an axe to grind to malicious.ly question whether the company had contravened a UN trade embargo on Libya.
Questions were asked in Congress - remember, breaking these embargoes can apparently carry a long jail sentence in the US - but happil.ly, the UK government is satisfied that NetNames acted legal.ly. So Revolution appeals to Congress to act merciful.ly and allow Pope his freedom this Christmas. He has undoubted.ly been the victim of terrible persecution, although it could just be that the Americans took exception to his Russian-sounding Christian name.
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