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PLEASE HELP MARNIE PEARCE!!!

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BizzieLizzie1 · 02/04/2009 20:35

PLEASE please sign the petition, which has been signed by Amnesty and which will be taken to the UAE Embassy in London, calling for the immediate release of Marnie from prison in Dubai and for the deportation order to be lifted so that Marnie can be near her children - and encourage all those you know to sign!

www.thepetitionsite.com/14/freedom-for-marnie-pearce

Marnie is currently unfairly imprisoned in Dubai on charges of adultery after being framed by her Egyptian ex-husband so that he could gain sole custody of their children, ages 4 and 7. Her ex-husband has now been awarded full custody as under Shariah law a woman automatically loses custody of her children if she is found guilty of adultery, as she is deemed to be an unfit mother... Marnie is set to be deported from Dubai to the UK without her children after completing her sentence in a month's time and faces not seeing her boys again until they are legally able to find her at the age of 18.

The British government has done virtually nothing to help Marnie and we now also need to put pressure on the Foreign Secretary to do the right thing and intervene in this situation on behalf of Marnie and her children!

Please email the Foreign Secretary David Miliband and ask him to sort out this situation!

His email address is [email protected]

See also the following link to Marnie's official campaign website:

www.costapages.com/savemarniesbabies

Thanks!

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pickupthismess · 02/04/2009 23:28

Bump for you - what a disgrace!

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BizzieLizzie1 · 03/04/2009 08:27

Absolutely!

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Nancy66 · 03/04/2009 10:03

I grind my teeth with anger every time I read this. I've signed it and emailed it to all my friends. The tally of signatures still seems pretty low....come on people.

wannaBe · 03/04/2009 10:12

when is this petition going to be taken to the embacy?

Given Marnie only has about two weeks left to serve of her sentence, and she has already been in prison since the middle of Feb it needs to be now doesn't it?

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BizzieLizzie1 · 03/04/2009 13:06

Wannabe, I'm not entirely sure but will find out for you. I imagine that the campaign will be hoping for a few more signatures - and if I could persuade you to sign that would be great! Marnie is due to be released in 2 weeks and 4 days. The articles on Sunday in the Mirror and Sunday Mirror generated a lot of support for the petition and Marnie's campaign, and I would hope that we will see more media coverage in the very near future.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/03/28/adultery-in-dubai-mum-s-husband-is-the-real-love-cheat- 115875-21235002

A focus of the campaign at the moment is to put some pressure on the Foreign Secretary to do the right thing and intervene in this situation. Please everyone who would like to help, email David Miliband ([email protected]) and ask him to sort this situation out!

Well done Nancy66 for your support!

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wannaBe · 03/04/2009 18:59

sorry but the longer this goes on the less point I think there is in signing.

The people fighting this would be better fighting the deportation order at this stage, surely.

There are only seventeen days left to stop Marnie's deportation, as I imagine that as soon as she is released she will be taken to the air port and put on the first plane home, as is customary with people who are being deported from most countries.

I get the impression that those running the campaign are stalling for some reason. You keep saying that the campaign is gathering momentum, that the media are going to become a lot more interested, but fact is this isn't happening. This case has been ongoing since December, and although the media are reporting on it, nothing is happening to make them remain interested.

Perhaps things will only become more interesting to the media once Marnie is home on British soil, and can speak out for herself?

ADealingMummy · 03/04/2009 20:08

signed

fairground · 04/04/2009 11:43

This is such a travesty of justice - the law in the UAE is a farce, and the British government is so weak not to have stepped in and strongly asked for a fair retrial for this woman. Her husband is the cheat - he has had a baby with another women - whom I might add is keeping an extremely low profile - I wonder how she will feel about it when he tries to get custody of her child. I hope she is sensible enough never to move to a country with him which deals out the type of 'justice' the UAE did otherwise this poor excuse for a man will do it all again to her.
I think we should all BOYCOTT PROCTOR AND GAMBLE products - after all he works for them and I have no idea how the company could explain how this man fits in with their motto of:"Touching lives, improving life".

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BizzieLizzie1 · 04/04/2009 14:49

Wow, I can't believe that's their motto!! Could it be that my daughter's electric tigger toothbrooth is saying "Screwing up lives" because the relationship manager for Oral B was actually mistaken?!

Definitely no more Oral B and Pampers in our house!

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wannaBe · 04/04/2009 15:01

"I think we should all BOYCOTT PROCTOR AND GAMBLE products - after all he works for them and I have no idea how the company could explain how this man fits
in with their motto of:"Touching lives, improving life"." That's a ridiculous notion. His employers are not responsible for what he does in his private life any more than your employers are responsible for what you do in yours.

I don't agree with what the man has done, but while it may be morally reprehensible it's not illegal. He is not answerable to his employers for what he does in his private life, and presumably his employers would not be allowed to refuse to hire someone on the basis they didn't think he had good morals.

PottyCock · 04/04/2009 15:19

Hi again bizzielizzie - hope you manage to get somewhere with this and the boys are reunited with their mother.

I still find the passage about the maid on the website very uncomfortable reading and would caution that if I had read that I might have been less proactive in my support (rightly or wrongly) - it would be sad if others were to feel the same way and if potential support were not to be forthcoming for this reason.

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BizzieLizzie1 · 04/04/2009 15:50

Thanks PottyCock. I'm sorry not to get back to you re the maid, but I have relayed your feedback on this to the campaign team. It was felt that as this passage was part of Marnie's final statement, they would not feel comfortable editing it themselves and that it would have to be put to Marnie herself and explained that it had raised a comment. I can certainly understand that you do not feel comfortable with the diatribe, but please understand that when Marnie made her final statement she was very distraught and her grave concerns were that the maid would be left to deal with the health and welfare of her precious boys. The maid had never looked after the children before, it was her job description to clean and Marnie was very concerned to think that Ihab was going to entrust her boys to the maids care. I am sure that if Marnie had not been in such a distraught frame of mind it would have been written differently. I hope this helps for the moment.

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wannaBe · 10/04/2009 20:47

this is interesting

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BizzieLizzie1 · 10/04/2009 23:43

Hmm.. unfortunately it is not true - Marnie did not see her son on his birthday - Marnie's ex husband will not allow her to even speak to the boys (and as far as I'm aware he was not even in the country). Marnie tried to speak to her son on his birthday, but each time she phoned the house a woman picked up the phone and laughed at her before putting the phone down.

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wannaBe · 11/04/2009 13:28

so the father is implicit in these lies as well then?

Presumably the petition never was given to the embacy - what was the point?

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BizzieLizzie1 · 11/04/2009 14:36

Wannabe, I'm sorry but personally I have found your contributions to these threads only negative - and I would like to agree to disagree please. Although I can't imagine why you might think that Marnie's father is implicit in any lies - if I had to take a guess I would say that he would have been either believing or hoping that Ihab would keep his word to him and take his son to see Marnie on his birthday - but I'm certainly not here to speculate on Marnie's father (I'm sure it's a very complex and sensitive situation for the wider family). Someone wrote on Marnie's website, if there is a chance that you could help Marnie, why would you not take it. I'm taking it, and I would encourage all others to do the same.

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2shoestrodonalltheeggs · 11/04/2009 14:42

wannabe can post what she likes

Ronaldinhio · 11/04/2009 18:29

wannabe is talking sense and can use her reasoning faculties wherever she sees fit surely?

wannaBe · 12/04/2009 10:19

Well according to

the sun
Marnie actually saw her eldest son on his birthday. Although presumably Marnie's so-called supporters won't have that published on their website because it's a positive.
Marnie's website hasn't been updated since the "love cheat" artacles wer epublished two weeks ago, and all the while you have been posting thread after thread calling for signatures on this petition which was aledgedly going to be handed to the UAE embacy in London, but there was no date when this was supposed to happen, and let's be honest it's too late now as Marnie will be being released next week.

I have not been negative I have been realistic. I have made many, many suggestions as to what Marnie's supporters could be doing, but a petition was apparently the only way to go.

Marnie's supporters have, in fact, done nothing to help her, bar to flood the internet with a useless petition which they never had any intention of presenting to anyone.

So forgive me if I'm not a supporter of your cause.

If Marnie Pearce is to be deported that is tragic. But once she is in the UK she will be in a better position to fight for her children.

But I said from the beginning that a petition would serve no purpose and it would seem I was right.

If groups want support they have to actually be seen to be doing something, but considering they are clearly seen to be doing nothing I'm not exactly sure what people are supposed to be supporting.

TotalChaos · 12/04/2009 10:35

wannabe - I still think it's as clear as mud whether Marnie saw her son on his birthday, as both links seem to be relying on Marnie's father's comment. that aside, I think your posts have been sensible and constructive. on their own petitions (particularly online petitions) are rather limited in what they achieve.

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BizzieLizzie1 · 12/04/2009 10:36

Wannabe, I am sure you are right!

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wannaBe · 12/04/2009 11:58

tc no you're right we have no way of really knowing whether it's true or not. But equally that could be said of a lot of what has been reported such as that the husband was cheating/has fathered another child with someone else.

So maybe the best thing is to just put it all down to rumour and speculation until Marnie is released in eight days and can clarify for herself.

My issue with an online petition is that anyone can start it/sign it. Signatures aren't real or unique - they're just names on a page. I could set up a petition then sign it with a hundred different names and email addresses and voila, a petition with multiple signatures. And anyone can sign a petition in the name of anyone else - just because it says Amnesty international on it doesn't mean it is, iyswim.

2shoestrodonalltheeggs · 12/04/2009 12:22

tbh I find it odd that someone only posts one topic on mn

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BizzieLizzie1 · 12/04/2009 13:39

Ohhhh, I am very odd... it has to be said! But rather than being too afflicted by my oddities, I like to remain upbeat! Happy Easter everybody!

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2shoestrodonalltheeggs · 12/04/2009 20:46

it bumps your thread