It's unfortunate but expected that politicians will play politics with this unfortunate situation but Ms Azer is not doing herself any favours by joining the game. Question period is a rough and tumble affair and outsiders may misunderstand the process. The Liberals thoroughly politicized the case of the Mohamed Fahmy, the jailed Egyptian-Canadian journalist, insisting on gun-boat diplomacy with a situation where we had no leverage.  Now the Conservatives and the NDP are returning the favour.  Let the government use what powers of persuasion that it has.  Canada doesn't have a lot of power to do otherwise.  The Conservatives low-key approached worked in the Fahmy case and might very well work here.