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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