Talk:Mende Nazer

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[edit] Withdrawn AFD

This article's AFD nomination was withdrawn. Johnleemk | Talk 13:09, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] POV point: Alleged slavery

I am the person who requested a POV check on the page. Mende Nazer is, as far as I know, an alleged slave. And the page was written as such. (I am the one who wrote the alleged adjective in the first place). She has published her book containing the said allegations, and has applied for asylum in the UK based on that. The story was disputed by ESPAC. Somebody (anonymous) deleted the references to ESPAC on the basis that it is a prorpaganda site that absolves the Sudanese government and deny the existence of Slavery in Sudan. No proof that ESPAC is a deceitful site is mentioned.

More imporantly, the British Home Office rejected her asylum request on the basis of her story, before granting asylum on the basis of risks resulting from her publishing and high profile case. A newspaper had to retract the story and pay damages after facing charges related to her publishing of the alleged story. Both are explained in the page. If that is not enough for the story to be at least considered as disputed, I don't know what is. Karouri 12:51, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

When I get time, I will go through a Lexis/Nexis news search and add citations and quotes. The February 21, 2004 U.S. edition of The Economist says, "When she first came to Khartoum...[s]he was 12, and about to be sold as a house slave, after being kidnapped during a raid on her village," and "In her late teens, she was shipped to her owner's sister and her diplomat husband in London, and continued her life as a slave. Helped by a fellow Sudanese, she escaped." Clearly citations to reliable sources with independent editorial oversight and a solid reputation for fact-checking are what we need, along with quotations in context. Tom Harrison ^Talk 13:26, 25 April 2007 (UTC)