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Article: 'We're frustrated and upset by the Foreign Office. It has no humanity'; Exclusive: Parents of Scots academic Lesley McCulloch speak out as she is freed
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- The Sunday Herald
- Article date:
- February 9, 2003
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THE parents of Scots academic Lesley McCulloch, jailed in
Indonesia, have accused the Foreign Office of giving them no support
and acting "without humanity".
McCulloch was freed this morning after being jailed on September
10 for allegedly contacting separatist rebels in Indonesia's troubled
Aceh province.
But Mattie and Donnie McCulloch, who live in Dunoon, yesterday
told the Sunday Herald that the Foreign Office had been "uncaring and
distant" during their five-month ordeal.
And they revealed their suspicions that their telephone was tapped
while they desperately tried to get information about their 40-year-
old daughter.
"We heard Lesley had been taken into custody, not through the ...