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Shetland: Campaign by islanders succeeds, emotional scenes as Sakchai returns home

01 June 2006

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"A young Shetland man of Thai origin threatened with deportation arrived home in the isles to a hero’s welcome after a two week ordeal in a high security prison in the northeast of England. Sakchai Makao was released on bail from Durham high security prison on Tuesday pending a hearing of his deportation case":

Full story, Shetland Times (link)

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