The Government of Liberia through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has appealed to its Korean ally to allow two imprisoned Liberian diplomats to end their jail term in Liberia.
The Liberian Maritime Program officials were arrested by the police in the South Korean City of Busan, and formally charged with the crime of “two-person joint rape.”
The officials — Moses Owen Browne, Liberia’s Permanent Representative to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in the UK — and Daniel Tarr, Director of the Department of Marine Environmental Protection at the LiMA, were arrested on the night of September 22, 2022.
Speaking Wednesday, June 12, 2024 at the Ministry of Information regular press briefing, Foreign Minister Sara Beysolow Nyanti disclosed that she made the appeal during their recent visit to Korea.
According to her, she officially registered the appeal and hopefully it will be granted to the ministry; she wants the two diplomats to be given the opportunity to come home and continue their tenure.
She indicated that Liberia and Korea have a very good relationship, and November 2024 marks 60 years of relationship between the two nations.
Minister Beysolow-Nyanti revealed that the Korean Government has given US$14 billion to companies in their country to invest in Africa and she hopes to sign the trade and investment framework with them this year.
