FREE PRESS

"Ghana government remains adamant as - 60 Ghanaians in Thai prisons send distress call", is the screaming headline of a front page story in the Free Press. The story says about 60 Ghanaian nationals languishing in jail in Thailand in the Far East, have sent a distress call to the Ghana government to secure their transfer to Ghana to enable them to complete their various terms of sentences. The Free Press says the medical attention is very poor, but for the help of a Christian Missionary, Reverend Father Olivier Morin, a Jesuit Catholic Refugee Priest, the story would have been very tragic. According to the paper, conditions in the prisons are unbearable. Bad sanitation, untreated drinking water and unhealthy food. The inmates provide themselves with everything from bedding to toiletries and feeding. The Free Press says the case of the Thai prisoners is that they are being inhumanly treated. The sentences are not only outrageous but beyond compare. They are held in very deplorable conditions which have no parallel in any of the prisons in France, USA, or any other Western countries. According tot he paper, the prisoners are being held for drug offences GRi

In a back page story, the Free Press reports that Christian churches in Ghana have been called upon to teach the nation about the positive ways by which a common national identity can be woven out of the country's differing ethnic backgrounds. GRi