Free at last!

Jonathan Stephen  |  Features
Date posted:  1 Mar 2003
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Ian Stillman, deaf and disabled himself, has a Christian ministry among the deaf in India. He spent two years in prison there on false charges of drug-smuggling. He was released and came back to the UK in December 2002 after a vigorous campaign for his release.

JS: Most Christians want to know how you managed to cope spiritually during your long term of imprisonment.

IS: I had a copy of the Bible and was able to read a wide range of books and magazines both secular and spiritual either brought in by people visiting or sent in by post. Nearly everything was censored by the prison guards, so I don't think that everything got through. However, sometimes it was so cold or I was too exhausted or having bad phantom pains, so that it was too difficult to concentrate to read or write.

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