Chi Fai Leung, Shun Wa Ng, and Kam Chuen Leung are three British nationals from Hong Kong who were acquitted of drug trafficking in April 2008, but remain in Bangkok’s notorious Bangkwang prison in Thailand.
The three men were working on a fishing boat in Thai waters when they were arrested by the Thai police, after five hundred kilos of heroin and methamphetamines were found onboard.
Leung, Ng and Leung always denied any involvement with drug trafficking, but they were convicted and sentenced to death for smuggling and intent to distribute, along with two other men.
In April 2008 the Court of Appeal overturned their convictions after one of the other defendants changed his statement, and admitted that Leung, Ng and Leung knew nothing about the drugs onboard the vessel.
Despite being declared not guilty by the court, the men remained in jail while the prosecution filed an appeal to the Supreme Court of Thailand.
On the 29th December 2011 the Supreme Court overturned their acquittal and Leung, Ng and Leung were resentenced to death. Their only hope now is clemency from the Thai King in the form of a Royal Pardon.
Reprieve are working with the Foreign Office and Leung, Ng and Leung’s Hong Kong and Thai lawyers.
Please contact harriet.mcculloch@reprieve.org.uk to find out how you can help.
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