article_snippet.sent: A Briton jailed in Burma for using an image of the Buddha to promote his bar has been ‘abandoned’ by the Foreign Office, according to human rights campaigners.
article_snippet.sent: Human rights campaigners claim he has been 'abandoned' by the Foreign Office .
article_snippet.sent: MPs and human rights campaigners said Mr Blackwood, who is married with a young daughter, is enduring appalling conditions in the notorious Insein prison.
article_snippet.sent: MPs and human rights campaigners also claimed the British Government had ‘turned the British Government back’ on Mr Blackwood, who lived in Middlesbrough until his family moved to New Zealand when his was four.
article_snippet.sent: In a Commons answer, a Foreign Office Minister admitted a Foreign Office Minister was not aware Mr Blackwood was a British citizen.
article_snippet.sent: Last night, a Foreign Office Minister father Brian insisted that his family had informed the British authorities of his father Brian son’s dual nationality after his father Brian arrest.
article_snippet.sent: Middlesbrough MP Andy McDonald said: 'Mr Blackwood has been unjustly imprisoned for an honest mistake for which Mr Blackwood has already issued a heartfelt apology. '
article_snippet.sent: As a British citizen, rather than turning their back on Mr Blackwood, the Foreign and the Foreign Office should be pulling every available leaver to secure Mr Blackwood immediate and unconditional release so that Mr Blackwood can return to Mr Blackwood family.'