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Indonesia: British traveller released after five months in prison
The dangers of ignoring visa regulations in far-off places has been illustrated by the news that a Scottish academic has just been released after five months in jail. Forty-year-old Lesley McCulloch was imprisoned in Indonesia’s Aceh province five months ago for “visa violations”; in fact she had visited a separatist rebel camp which was officially off-limits. She had also written critical articles about the Muslim province, where rebel forces have been fighting for independence for more than a quarter of a century. Ms McCulloch claims she was tortured and deprived of sleep during her ordeal. After expressing her joy at being released, she vowed that she would return to the province once she had visited relatives at home in Scotland, and promised that she would carry on campaigning against human rights abuses in the province.
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