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"Mr President, I would like to raise the situation of one of my constituents, John Packwood from the Isle of Wight, who, as a result of an international arrest warrant taken out against him by the Moroccan authorities, is currently being held in prison in Madrid. Mr Packwood, along with three colleagues, delivered a privately-owned boat from the UK to Morocco back in 1997. The boat was fully searched on its arrival, given a clean bill of health and the four men went home. A full ten weeks later several tons of cocaine were found on board the vessel. Interpol interviewed the men and was completely satisfied that they were not implicated in any criminal activity.
The first the men knew of the international arrest warrant was last month – over seven years later – when John Packwood was arrested as he passed through Malaga airport. He is now in prison in Madrid and that is completely unacceptable. I would ask the President of Parliament to intervene with the Moroccan authorities to raise these concerns and ask that these arrest warrants be lifted.
The international NGO, Fair Trials Abroad, has agreed that this appears to be a blatant abuse of the international arrest warrant, since it is quite clear that the men could not have been involved in any smuggling operation."@en1
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