The family of Bill Shaw MBE has launched a campaign to free him from a notorious Afghanistan jail where he is imprisoned following a sham trial at a Kabul court on April 26.

Bill, a decorated veteran who served 28 years in the British Army, was wrongly convicted of bribery and sentenced to two years in prison. The charges against him were totally misconceived and not proven in court.

He believed he was making a legitimate payment to an official Afghan security department to retrieve his employer’s vehicles. Bill repeatedly requested a receipt at the time of payment and afterwards, but none was given. He made the release fee payment in good faith, openly and transparently. It was fully documented and approved in accordance with his company's procedures. 

The family is completely shocked by the judgement which runs against the principles of natural justice. Bill is a real family man, a father of three children and a grandfather of two and yet he faces two years in an Afghanistan prison for a crime he did not commit. It is important to the family that people understand Bill is a man of the highest possible ethical and moral standards who has served his country with distinction for more than 30 years, both while in the Royal Military Police and working to support reconstruction efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The family is calling on the Afghan and British authorities to urgently overturn this patently unfair judgement. They need your support to back the campaign.

You can do this via:

facebook.com – ‘Free Bill Shaw’

facebook.com – ‘Support for Billy Shaw Ex RMP’

twitter.com – follow @freebillshaw

http://twitter.com/freebillshaw

sign the online petition – Free William Shaw MBE

http://www.petitiononline.com/WS260410/

SEND A LETTER TO YOUR LOCAL MP
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