I got the chance to talk with Joshua again. The boys are really tired of waiting, and so are we also now. Joshua told me a little about what’s going on in the prison:
Joshua: There is a touch of the rain season at the moment. It has been raining quite a bit in the last couple of days, and recently we had no electricity for four days.
A problem here is that the police and the military often comes in and takes the inmates’ food. This creates some aggression and frustration in here.
There are a lot of mosquitoes, cockroaches and the occasional rat in our cell from time to time. Our days are very long here, while we wait for the progress to proceed and the Supreme Court. We fill our days making new dishes like homemade mashed potatoes, omelets etc. among other things.
We walk around in the prison quite a lot, and in the evenings we listen to the radio when it is BBC in English. All of the footballs Mathilde brought with her broke a long time ago.
We got all the support mails. I want to send my deepest thanks to those of you who sent them. Big thanks to all of you! We read them often, and the mails are read many times over and over again. They make a huge difference in our everyday life.
The medication that was brought from Norway to us was denied in to the prison just to upset us. Unfortunately this affects the other prisoners, but that’s just the way it is here.
-Joshua French, 6th Week 2010
