Kanyakumari: Nine Indian fishermen, who nest in prison in Iran since January 2020, has been released.
They were released from the Bushehr Prison on Monday and their lawyers were in the process of regulating their repatriation to India, email from the Indian Consulate in Abbas, Iran, to the President of the International Fishermen Development Trust, WHO Bustin Antony, WHO began steps for the release of men , stated.
Antony, quoted a senior official at the Indian Consul in Iran on Friday said that people who were not in Bushehr would be taken to the consul in Abbas Bandar on Sunday, after the formalities to repatriate them will be carried out.
Fisherman Albert Ravi, 38, Godwin John Weldon, 40, Arockia Ligin, 24, Joseph Besky, 50, JESDA, 27, Daynas, 40, Sahaya Vijay, 22, Michael Adimai, 45, and All From Kanyakumari, work for Kuwait’s employer.
On January 15, 2020, they went fishing from Fahaheel in Kuwait on three fishermen.
Two days later, they were detained by Iran’s authorities on charges of entering their territorial waters.
Their legal battle is long.
The family paid 8.1 lakh at 90,000 each as a fee for lawyers but was guarded for a very long time, to some extent they learned that they were sentenced to long later.
All men are breadwinners and families struggle to arrange money.
Deceived by lawyers in Iran, these families are pushed into deeper financial trouble.
With the help of activists they run the pillar to post and apply for officials and politicians to make the men be released.
Apart from a series of e-mail representations to the Prime Minister, Minister of Home Affairs, Minister of the External Affairs, the State Government and officials at the Fisheries Department, Antony also made a representation for the Interior Minister Amit Shah during the election rally in Kanyakumari District this year.