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I wish people could see the human side of my existence. The effect this has on my children. I am not alive. I merely exist. An inspirational heart-rendering flash movie about detainees. Click Here
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.
- Full Story
Help support Mon's repatriation.
In September 2000, a Thai woman named 'Mon' [John-korn Jarearatikorn] was arrested
in Laos on charges relating to drug possession. She was sentenced by the Lao
Municipal Court to an 11 year sentence. By Thai standards,this would be considered
quite a lenient sentence given that many prisoners in Thailand detained on drug charges
are either given the death sentence or jailed for life.
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A Nightmare of his own Making...
Randy Sachs from Hamilton Ontario [Canada] turned 31 years old this year and unless
he is granted Clemency from the Vietnam President, he will have to face another decade
in a nightmare of his own making before finally being allowed to return home to family and friends.
In May 2003, Randy Sachs was arrested with 1000 pills of ecstasy in his possession.
Caught 'Red handed' there's no denying that he broke the law and deserves to be punished.
'Bali Six' plotted drug run in Valley karaoke bar, court told
An accused drug mule and member of Brisbane's so-called 'Bali Six' complained the tape
used to strap heroin to her body during an alleged drug run through Sydney Airport four
years ago had irritated her skin, a court has heard. Alice Yun Hsun Yang, 22 of Stretton,
is facing trail in Brisbane's Supreme Court over an alleged conspiracy to import drugs
into Australia from the Indonesian tourist mecca between August 1 and December 14, 2004.
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Bali 9 Case Info
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.
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.
Case Information
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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Case Information
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Burma democracy activists sentenced to 65 years in prison.
Today the regime sentenced 14 leading democracy activists in Burma to 65 years in prison.
If they are forced to serve their full terms, they will die in jail. The sentences were handed down at around 1pm,
behind closed doors in Insein prison special court in Rangoon. Family members were not allowed to attend the hearing.
The sentences today relate to only five charges. They are all charged with a total of 21 charges and face further
sentences as their trials continue. - Full Story
Latest Release Books
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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Aussie man jailed in Thailand over tourist's murder
A 60-year-old Australian man, William Thomas Douglas has been sentenced to jail in Thailand for the murder of an American tourist earlier this year.
Read More.. Priest relives firing squad deaths for court
THE fate facing condemned Australian drug smugglers and the three Bali bombers was played out in grisly detail as the court hearing the bombers' death penalty challenge was yesterday given a firsthand account of an Indonesian
firing squad. Read More.. Barred from jail time at home
They are the country's least desirable exports: New Zealanders who commit crime overseas. And they are winding up in foreign prisons in ever-increasing numbers - around 751 at last count, compared with 599 three years ago.
Read More.. Death sentence for Aussie smuggler
A SYDNEY man was sentenced to death in Vietnam yesterday for trying to smuggle almost a kilogram of heroin to Sydney in his underwear, as two other Australians prepared to face trial in Hanoi tomorrow on unrelated heroin trafficking charges.
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"Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him." Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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