sesa
28th December 2008, 09:44 AM
Here I have copy pasted the e-mail, I received from a friend.
FACEBOOK GROUPhttp://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1111433198#/group.php?gid=54077259736&ref=nf
DEAR FRIENDS,
Tomorrow we will be canvassing in Hong Kong to search for a missing woman from Canada named Ani Ashekian, 30 years old.We need all the volunteers we can find. We are all meeting up at Exit E in the Causeway Bay MTR station just near the escalators at 11am to begin the search and start passing out these leaflets. If you are able to join, please print out as many of the flyer attached.
Genevieve Marentette6746-3167
Preston Powell, organizer9534-9531preston.powell@gmail.com
Article from the SCMP:
Fears for Canadian tourist missing in HK
Nick Gentle and Dan Kadison
Dec 25, 2008
Police fear for the safety of a Canadian tourist who vanished in Hong Kong last month.
Ani Ashekian, 30, has not been heard from since she sent a text message to her sister on November 10, a day after she arrived in the city.
Her bank accounts have been untouched since two cash advances, one for HK$2,000 and another for HK$800, were made on her Visa card from ATMs at Causeway Bay MTR station on November 10.
A police statement yesterday said she was last seen at Chungking Mansions in Tsim Sha Tsui. She was wearing a white top and carrying a rucksack.
Miss Ashekian, who had been planning to travel to India before returning to Toronto on December 15, never left Hong Kong, according to passport information obtained by her family in Canada.
She has no close friends or family in the city and her relatives in Canada became worried after not hearing from her for weeks.
"She was looking to find herself," said her older sister, Rosie Kampstra. "She wanted to tour the world."
Miss Ashekian, described as 163cm tall, 55kg and of South Asian appearance, left Toronto Pearson International Airport with two acquaintances from her legal firm on an overnight flight to Beijing on October 24.
She checked out of the Beijing YWCA on October 30 without discussing her plans with her travel companions, something her sister said was not out of the ordinary.
"She's very spontaneous," Ms Kampstra said. "When she gets something in her mind, that's what she is going to do. She wasn't good friends with the people she went to Beijing with.
"Honestly, she probably didn't know herself where she was going at that point."
All that is known about her movements after that is that she passed through Hong Kong immigration on November 9.
FACEBOOK GROUPhttp://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1111433198#/group.php?gid=54077259736&ref=nf
FACEBOOK GROUPhttp://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1111433198#/group.php?gid=54077259736&ref=nf
DEAR FRIENDS,
Tomorrow we will be canvassing in Hong Kong to search for a missing woman from Canada named Ani Ashekian, 30 years old.We need all the volunteers we can find. We are all meeting up at Exit E in the Causeway Bay MTR station just near the escalators at 11am to begin the search and start passing out these leaflets. If you are able to join, please print out as many of the flyer attached.
Genevieve Marentette6746-3167
Preston Powell, organizer9534-9531preston.powell@gmail.com
Article from the SCMP:
Fears for Canadian tourist missing in HK
Nick Gentle and Dan Kadison
Dec 25, 2008
Police fear for the safety of a Canadian tourist who vanished in Hong Kong last month.
Ani Ashekian, 30, has not been heard from since she sent a text message to her sister on November 10, a day after she arrived in the city.
Her bank accounts have been untouched since two cash advances, one for HK$2,000 and another for HK$800, were made on her Visa card from ATMs at Causeway Bay MTR station on November 10.
A police statement yesterday said she was last seen at Chungking Mansions in Tsim Sha Tsui. She was wearing a white top and carrying a rucksack.
Miss Ashekian, who had been planning to travel to India before returning to Toronto on December 15, never left Hong Kong, according to passport information obtained by her family in Canada.
She has no close friends or family in the city and her relatives in Canada became worried after not hearing from her for weeks.
"She was looking to find herself," said her older sister, Rosie Kampstra. "She wanted to tour the world."
Miss Ashekian, described as 163cm tall, 55kg and of South Asian appearance, left Toronto Pearson International Airport with two acquaintances from her legal firm on an overnight flight to Beijing on October 24.
She checked out of the Beijing YWCA on October 30 without discussing her plans with her travel companions, something her sister said was not out of the ordinary.
"She's very spontaneous," Ms Kampstra said. "When she gets something in her mind, that's what she is going to do. She wasn't good friends with the people she went to Beijing with.
"Honestly, she probably didn't know herself where she was going at that point."
All that is known about her movements after that is that she passed through Hong Kong immigration on November 9.
FACEBOOK GROUPhttp://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1111433198#/group.php?gid=54077259736&ref=nf