Angelina Jolie banned from entering Sudan by visa authorities

Angelina Jolie was banned from entering Sudan by visa authorities of the country recently.

According to Radar Online, the 39-year-old actress, who’s a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations, had arrived to attend a civil society event in the country’s capital of Khartoum.

Barred from entering the country, Jolie still managed to impart her message at the summit by appearing in a video.

In the video, she criticised President Omar al-Bashir and his administration for the death sentence of Christian woman Yahya Ibrahim, who refused to renounce her religion in the Muslim-dominated country.

“Khartoum should respect the fundamental right to freedom of religion, and to repeal its laws that ban people from converting their faith, as they are inconsistent with its 2005 Interim Constitution, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,” she was quoted by various media as saying in the clip.

She also noted the disproportionate amount of wealth among the elites in Sudan’s political circle, saying “They steal wealth, then fund the Janjaweed, the internal security organs, and the Sudanese Air Force, and ensure that those brutal instruments of control are held by a small circle of ruling party officials.”

Agencies/Canadajournal