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India: Jailed charity worker gains his freedom
Christopher Claire Scotland on Sunday
Sunday 08 Dec 2002 A DISABLED British charity worker jailed in India for drugs offences has been freed on health grounds after serving two years of his 10-year jail sentence. The case of Ian Stillman, who is deaf, suffers from diabetes and has an artificial leg, had been described by the campaign group Fair Trial Abroad as "the worst miscarriage of justice" it had ever dealt with. Stillman, 52, from Reading, Berkshire, was arrested two years ago in the foothills of the Himalayas after 20kg of cannabis was found in the shared taxi he had been travelling in. He denied the drug was his. Yesterday he walked free from jail after Indian authorities agreed to release him on health grounds, but his conviction has not been overturned. Stillman, who has lived in India with his wife since 1972, where he has founded a number of charities, is due to travel to the British High Commission in Delhi today, where he will be reunited with his family. He has been told by the Indian authorities that he must leave the country.
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