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Three of Bali Nine to escape execution
IThe team at Foreignprisoners.com were absolutely thrilled to receive the news that the
Indonesian authorities have overturned the death penalty of Matthew Norman, Si Yi Chen and Tan Nguyen.
This has been an emotional campaign for all of us involved in trying to save the lives of these three
boys but there is still a very long way to go before they can reunite with their families back home in Australia.
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Dutchman wrongly convicted in Michigan
Harry Bout is a Dutchman who has been wrongfully imprisoned in the USA since 1985.
He was arrested together with the actual murderer, who entered a plea-bargain,
giving her a way out, while the lay-out of the crime-scene was altered by police
in a way that Harry would seem the murderer. This amounts to perjury by police.
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Soe Paing Tinsoe
Dear Friends,I received a lovely letter from Soe Paing Tinsoe and he wrote beautifully.
I would like to encourage others to write to him and offer their support.
Life is very difficult for the Myanmar People. They are not wealthy by any means.
They have very little support and they often don't have relatives or friends visiting
because they can never afford to make the long journey to Thailand.
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Update Randy Sachs - 16 October 2007.
The Canadian Embassy visted Randy last week [October 2007]. He seemed to be coping
okay despite the fact that he has been moved to a bigger cell with 60 other inmates.
His monthly rice ration has now increased from 15kg to 18kg.
Please show support to Randy by assisting his family. It is after all, they who must financially bear the brunt of his continued detainment.
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| Alan Hodgson
Alan's situation remains of critical concern to FPSS.
He is now hospitalised and has been for the last five months.
He continues to deteriorate with severe arthritis of the spine.
Alan has spurs on his spine which press on the nerves and cause numbness and pain.
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| Emmanuel O Ihejirika
Life on death row is a constant anxious wait for Emmanuel who initially
received life imprisonment in 2004 for smuggling 396.6 grams of heroin
contained in 31 capsules in his stomach. When he appealed the verdict,
the Bali high court increased his sentence to death. He is currently
detained in Kerobokan Prison awaiting execution.
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| Rachael Diaz
In a Hong Kong jail there's another Australian woman doing time for drugs.
Her name is Rachel Diaz and it's a fair bet you haven't got a clue who she is, let alone what she looks like…
It was April 2005 and Rachel rang her mother in the Sydney suburb of East Hills to say she was sleeping over at a friend's house.
She was sleeping over alright, but in Hong Kong: Rachel the trainee hairdresser was about to become a heroin smuggler.
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| Nils Taft Update March 11, 2007
Dear friends of Nils: This is just to let you know that he has a birthday on 22nd March 2007 when he'll be 42.
If you feel like sending him a card his address is: Nils Taft,
Osaka Prison, 6-1 Tadei-cho Sakai-shi. Osaka 590-0014, Japan.
I trust this finds you all in good health. Thanks for your continuing support. With kind regards, John Taft [Father of Nils Taft] Nils Taft Case Information
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Mitchell Blake Update
Since his arrest in Thailand on 23 September 1993, Mitchell Blake has been indicted in May 2002 on charges of conspiring with
an unnamed person to import a quantity of heroin. The American authorities have requested Mitchell be extradited at the END
of his Thai sentence - May 22nd 2020. Mitchell urgently needs funds to engage a US Attorney to defend his case pending extradition to the United States.
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Please Write to Ryner Christopher
I would very much welcome letters from people throughout the world.
This would help me to maintain a positive outlook for the future.
I am so lonely at times even though I am surrounded by hundreds of prisoners.
If you feel inclined to write to me then I would be so grateful.
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Teen in Cambodian jail could come home
convicted in Cambodia of drug smuggling could serve his 13-year jail
term in Australia under a prisoner transfer deal expected to be signed next month.
Chinese-Australian Gordon Vuong was 16 when he was arrested at Phnom Penh International Airport in January, 2005, with 2.1kg of heroin concealed on his body.
He was sentenced by Phnom Penh Municipal Court in May last year to 13 years in prison.
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In 2007, this still happens
A worldwide condemnation erupted after a video posted on an internet video-sharing website showed
a Malaysian prisoner being tortured with a cane.
The disturbing video shows a naked man strapped to a wooden
frame, his rear exposed to a uniformed official who lifts a meter-long rattan stick above
his head before bringing it down on the prisoner's buttocks, tearing the flesh with each strike.
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Latest Release Books
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Families Behind Bars
Another book by Kay Danes that will take you to some of the most evil dungeons on our planet and tell
you stories right out of a gothic horror novel.
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Celebrity Campaigners
A warm welcome to our "Celebrity Campaigners" who have sent us their messages to support our latest
initiative in raising public awareness about human rights issues and anti-drugs campaigns.
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India to repatriate ill UK inmate
A seriously ill Briton serving a jail term for drugs
offences in a notorious Indian prison is to see out
his 10-year sentence in the UK, officials say.
Stephen Jenkins, 58, from Yorkshire, is being held in
Delhi's crowded Tihar jail after being convicted in 2006.
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Amb. To Laos: U.S. Working To Find Missing Men
The U.S. ambassador to Laos said Wednesday that he is working with Laotian officials to
find three St. Paul men who went missing while touring in Laos in August, reportedly at the hands of the Laotian military.
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Toddlers live behind prison bars / In Mexico City, female inmates can keep their children with them up to age 6
The increased activity of women participating in drug
dealing has increased dramaticaly in the last two
decades and so has the percentage of young children
living with them in jail.
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American freed in Nicaragua goes into hiding
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (CNN) -- An American man held in
a Nicaraguan jail was released Friday and left the
country, four days after a court overturned his conviction
on charges of murdering his former girlfriend.
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