Foster City residents Jon and Linda Grant stood outside the Tanzanian Embassy in Washington on Tuesday, warning others of their experience in the country and pleading with the Tanzanian ambassador to meet with them. Their plight began with the purchase of an unusual souvenir at a game reserve in South Africa last winter, an etched giraffe bone. But when the couple went through security to leave, they were detained and sent to a Tanzanian jail. They even had to pay someone to fly from the South African souvenir shop with the original receipt. Speier has asked more than 30 times for a meeting with the Tanzanian ambassador since early April, she said.

Source: Los Angeles Times September 13, 2016 19:25 UTC