This is just an update for those who may have been following my reports.
My son is being held in prison in a country I will not identify for obvious reasons. It amounts to a virtual kidnap and ransom situation in an area that even the national government there has little control over. My son has asked that I not say much about it for fear of making the situation worse (no, the rule of law does not apply in as many places in this world as some idealists would like to believe.)
At any rate his only link to the outside world has been a cellphone that one of his friends managed to smuggle in to him.
Last night the guards conducted a surprise search early in the morning when the prisoners were asleep and they discovered my son’s phone. He could only let me know because the guard who seized the phone let him call out to tell me.
Unfortunately this is the same guard who fractured my son’s wrist about a month ago. He is not a friend.
Of course everything there is run on bribes and money. We may be able to pay the guards off to leave my son alone and give back the phone but there is nothing to say that they will keep their word once they take the money anyway.
I am waiting to see if I hear from him again to let me know if they will accept a bribe. And of course I have very little to offer them.
I have been very worried about this since the very beginning and the thing that I feared has come upon me.
I don’t need to say how devastating this is to me.