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HUMAN RIGHTS FOR EACH PERSON REGARDLESS OF AGE, RACE, RELIGION OR POLITICS
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EXCHANGE TREATIES & PARDONS
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There are several countries who currently have Prisoner Exchange Treaties with Countries like Thailand. A Prisoner Exchange treaty means that if you are arrested in a foreign country in which your own country has a treaty with, then after a set period of time you may be returned to your country of residence to serve the remainder of your sentence. Often your sentence may be reduced in proportion to your own countries code of sentencing.
For some inmates this is the only perceivable way home. They may be serving life sentences (often 30 years is as bad as life) with no hope of seeing their home country ever again. For others it is a matter of survival.
Following is a list of countries who currently have exchange treaties with Thailand. To the right is a Hit list of Countries to petition with regard to creating a transfer treaty! You can click on your country of choice and send an email to their government with the click of a mouse!
April 2005 Indonesia and Australia sign transfer treaty
We are very happy to announce that in April 2005 Australia and Indonesia signed the Prisoner transfer agreement. Much of the impetus for the expedient signing of this agreement is owed to Schapelle Corby who has spent many a harrowing months in an Indonesian prison awaiting the outcome of her case. It will be great to see several of the Australian nationals currently in prison in Indonesia return to Australia to complete their sentences.
It is at times like these we must remember those fellow human beings that are today sitting in cramped prison cells struggeling to stay alive in a foreign prison. Lets keep our efforts up to petition the media and the governments to sign transfer agreements.
South African Women Want to Go Home
We recently received a letter from a group of 18 South African Women who are incarcerated in prison in Thailand. They have sent many letters to their government, all of which have remained unanswered! South Africa does not currently have a prisoner exchange treaty with Thailand, and it is well overdue!
Some of the Women have children on the outside, all of the women want to go home! These women have sent letters to the King of Thailand begging his forgivness, and letters to their own government expressing humble apologies for their crimes. Many women would still have to serve out their sentence in a prison at home, but this would be a lifetime away from the reality they are currently enduring. Most of the women have already served over 6 years in Thai prisons sleeping in huge overcrowded cells with over 200 other women. This reality is made even harder to tollerate by having to watch their friends and fellow foreign inmates going home to their own countries on prisoner exchange treaties.
Help these Women return to their home lands, their children, family & friends.
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Treaties & Transfers
As of 2002
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Nationality
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Transfers
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| Australia | 2 |
| Spain | 27 |
| Sweden | 9 |
| America | 47 |
| Britain | 12 |
| Italy | 4 |
| Hong Kong | 62 |
| France | 20 |
| Canada | 9 |
| Thailand | 4 |
| U.K | 2 |
| Nigeria | 237 |
| USA | 1 |
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Treaties Needed With
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Following is a list of countries who do NOT have treaties with Thailand. Click on the name to send an email or add your name to the petition.
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PRISONER EXCHANGE TREATY COUNTRY PETITIONS
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Lists of Participating Countries and States
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The United States has bilateral transfer treaties with Bolivia, Canada,
France, Hong Kong, Panama, Peru, Thailand, and Turkey, and is a party to
the multilateral Council of Europe (COE) Convention on the Transfer of
Sentenced Persons. The United States also has prisoner transfer agreements
with the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshal Islands, and the
Republic of Palau.
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Bolivia
Canada *
Marshall Islands Mexico
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Panama *
Peru Thailand
Turkey *
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Hong Kong Republic of Palau
France *
Micronesia
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* France, Canada, Panama, and Turkey are also signatories to the Council of
Europe Convention. France prefers proceeding unde the bilateral treaty.
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Countries With Which Prisoner Transfer Treaties Are In Effect
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Albania
Andorra
Azerbaijan
Armenia
Australia
Austria
Bahamas
Belgium
Bermuda
Bolivia
Brazil
Bulgaria
Canada
Chile
Costa Rica
Croatia
Cyprus
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Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
Georgia
Germany
Greece
Hong Kong
Hungary
Iceland
Indonesia
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Japan
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Latvia
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Malta
Marshall Islands
Mexico
Micronesia
Netherlands (incl. Netherlands Antilles and Aruba)
Nicaragua
Norway Palau
Panama
Peru
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Poland
Portugal
Romania
Serbia
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Thailand
Tonga
Trinidad/Tobago
Turkey
Ukraine
United Kingdom *
Venezuela
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* United Kingdom Territories: Anguilla, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar,
Montserrat, Sovereign Base areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia in the Island of
Cyprus, St. Helena and St. Helena
Dependencies, British Indian Ocean Territory, Ducie and Oeno Islands,
Henderson Island, Pitcairn, British Virgin Islands, Falkland Islands, Isle
of Man
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States With Legislation Authorizing the Transfer of Foreign Prisoners
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Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
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Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
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Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
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South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont (Canada only)
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
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(as of August 5, 2003)
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FREEDOM IS A RIGHT OF ALL HUMAN BEINGS IN A WORLD WHERE LIFE IS VALUED AND PEACE MAY FINALLY BE A POSSABILITY
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Just in case you forgot - read the Universal declaration of Human Rights
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