Mise à jour sur la pétitionFree the 6 British Veterans from Indian jail #CHENNAI6Breakthrough....front Page news
Yvonne IrvingStewarton, SCT, Royaume-Uni
19 sept. 2016
Today was a breakthrough. Our men's faces, their stories, and their fight for freedom was on the front page of a national newspaper for the first time in 3 years!!! I spent most the end of 2013 until April 2014 crying. I was only 24, and I'd just been told the man I loved was in a indian prison. I cried for hours on end. I never slept. I could n't eat and I would spend hours pacing around my home in Argyll in Scotland not knowing what to do. I could n't sit still. I watched the indian news channel NDTV every minute of the day. I wrote countless e-mails to politicians, news channels, lawyers and charities. I stopped going to work, stopped speaking to my friends, and although i never knew it at the time. I was ill. I was sick with worry, smoking endless packets of cigarettes and drinking bucket loads of diet coke. I was n't alone, there were 5 other families going through the same torment as me. There were 6 men, sitting in prison, with no communication with the outside world, bewildered as to how they have landed up in a notorious indian jail. Our men. Our husbands, Our Sons, Our brothers, Our Dads, Our boyfriends, Our Uncles and Our best friends were in a Indian Prison. We never knew who to turn to for help. We couldn't even call the men to ask what had happened or reassure them that we would do everything in our power to get them home. The foreign and commonwealth office told us not to speak to press. Not to antagonize the situation. The company the men were working for told us everything would be ok, they would sort it. They did n't and we had no idea who we could trust to help us. 3 years on, 6 British veterans, 6 innocent men, 6 war heroes...MY hero are languish in a indian prison for a crime they did n't commit. I was in India the day Billy and the men were released from prison on bail in April 2014. I waited for hours outside those prison gates knowing that any moment they'd be free. I wondered what they'd look like, how they were feeling, and most of all I wondered what It would be like to be in Billy's arms again and know he was free. After 6 and a half long hours in the blistering sun i saw figures emerge from the dusty prison grounds, and I cried again, only this time for the first time in 6 months it was tears of joy. After 4 months in India with Billy the men were all found innocent and told to return home. It was all over, and i'd never feel that feeling of complete helplessness again....It wasn't to be, and it didnt end there. The indian authorities held on to their passports and visas, the british government did n't intervene and before we knew it the men were locked in yet another legal battle. The police had appealed the decision to have the charges dropped and we were back to square one, We were facing this all over again, all the heartache, the un known, the mental torture and the separation....only this time round it wasn't just myself and Billy I had to worry about. I was carrying our first child. The day we found out I was pregnant I made a promise to Billy to do everything to protect myself Billy and our baby. I stopped pacing about the house, stopped crying, started eating, got back to work and started planning our future as a family. I decided our nightmare would end, with hard work, determination, and strength we'd get there, and when it did we would come out the other side the strongest family the world has ever seen. I'll never stop believing this, Ill never give up hope, and never give up the fight to bring those men home. Today seeing our men's faces on the front page of the Sun brought back all those feeling i had in 2013. The gut wrenching punch in the stomach. incapable of holding back tears, and feeling so Helpless. I try to be strong and brave for Billy and our son but today I crumbled. There are times i pretend this isn't happening, I put it all to the back of my mind and paint on a smile for the sake of our son, and the amazing future myself and Billy have. Today it was all to real, Billy is still suffering in prison, he's a innocent man, locked up in the most disgusting conditions and being treated like a common criminal. I struggle to see how this has been allowed to carry on for so long. Today brought back the very feelings I felt in 2013 as a terrified young girl. Im stronger now though, I can deal with them, I may still be terrified, but im a terrified Women now, I'm a mum, and one day, not long from now I'll be Billy's wife. Millions of people across Britain and the world will read their story today, talk about this with friends, discuss it in the pub over a pint or feel strong enough about it to write to their MP. That fills me with the greatest hope of all. Humanity has the power to do good, and to turn the impossible into the possible. Today I feel that maybe, just maybe, the very person who can end all this suffering has read that article, is maybe even reading this e-mail now, and brings our men home at last.
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