Shezanne Cassim. Courtesy Shervon Cassim
The Minnesota Star Tribune website reports that U.S. Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Michael Corbin told U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar the case of Shezanne Cassim, a former Minnesota resident imprisoned in Abu Dhabi, is his “highest priority.”
In a phone call late Monday night, Senator Klobuchar also said she plans to discuss Cassim’s case again with Yousef Al Otaiba, the UAE ambassador to the United States.
As I blogged earlier this week, Cassim has been in prison since April 2013 for posting a parody video on YouTube.
