Under guard: members of the crew of the MV Seaman Guard
Ohio, a US-owned anti-piracy ship which has been detained in
India, are asking for more help from the British Government, the
Mission to Seafarers said on Tuesday. Altogether, 35 seafarers,
including six Britons, have been held for more than five months,
awaiting trial in Chennai, on charges of illegally transporting
weapons and firearms offences. The ship's captain has told
investigators that the vessel was providing armed escorts to ships
in the Indian Ocean. The British families, supported by the
Mission, have called on the Prime Minister to help them, and have
launched a "fighting fund"
Under guard: members of the crew of the MV Seaman Guard
Ohio, a US-owned anti-piracy ship which has been detained in
India, are asking for more help...
Iranian woman's death sentence dropped
A WOMAN whose case was the subject of an international campaign
has had her sentence of death by stoning formally cancelled, the
government of Iran announced on Tuesday. Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani
has spent nine years in prison, after being convicted of adultery
and complicity in the murder of her husband in 2006. She has now
been "granted leave" from prison.
New head for Send a Cow
THE development charity Send a Cow has appointed the Revd Simon
Barnes as its new chief executive. A British-born Anglican priest,
Mr Barnes is a former executive vice-president of the American
Bible Society.
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