Washington – A U.S. congressman involved in efforts to free a New York man who says he’s been wrongly jailed in Bolivia, says he will introduce legislation to hold accountable foreign officials violating the due process and human rights of imprisoned Americans.
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Rep. Chris Smith, chair of the House human rights subcommittee, said Wednesday his bill, “Justice for Imprisoned Americans Overseas Act,” or “Jacobs Law,” would ban travel to the U.S. by the officials while Americans “unjustly languish in their prisons.”
The New Jersey Republican has been involved in the case of Jacob Ostreicher, who has been jailed in Bolivia for over a year and whose daughter is from Lakewood, N.J.
Ostreicher made an in rice farming and says he was swindled by an associate who turned out to have been involved with a drug trafficker.
We all know that Ostreicher is noy guilty of any crime as was the testimony fronthe ex FBI director who visited Ostreicher in jail…But my question is how can the USA sanction a country that has a rule that a arrested criminal must be charged by 18 months…So basically ostreicher is already sitting 14 months and according to Bolivian they still have 4 months to indicte him or let him free….I think the USA must sanction any country that has a law that a US citizen must be indicted in a fair amount of days (example 30 or 60days) and if that govt. does not agree we must cut off ties with that country…we all know that Ostreicher has NOT been charged because there is NO charges against him..If anything its the other way around..The bolivians are the criminalse…
What the bill basically does is what the Brittish did to Savage. He may not go there cuz if he does they will arrest him like as if he is a terrorist. I dont think its such a good idea at this point. It might endanger Yanky even more.