Saturday, October 13, 2012

Drug Claims in Oman Jail Ordeal

BRISBANE TIMES: AN AUSTRALIAN grandmother who was jailed for a month in Oman claims she was repeatedly drugged and made to sleep on the floor of a prison cell with 35 other women.

Anne Geddes, 62, and her partner, Australian businessman Christopher Reynolds, 60, were taken into police custody on September 8, just hours after jumping out of a moving Toyota Landcruiser driven by a people-smuggler.

The vehicle had turned off the highway and demands for more money were being made, she said.

"We were both really frightened," she told The Sun-Herald from her Dubai hotel on Thursday, less than 24 hours after Oman authorities ''dumped'' her at the United Arab Emirates border office. » | Taghred Chandab | Sunday, October 14, 2012