Ian Stillman

Ian Stillman has been a world-renowned aid pioneer among the deaf in India for 27 years. He himself is totally deaf, and also an amputee. Ian was jailed in North India in August 2000 after police claimed to find drugs in a public taxi in which he was a passenger.Ian denies all knowledge of any drugs. Ian was excluded from his own trial - refused a deaf interpreter and a Hindi translator. For months he was held in cramped, insanitory conditions without medical care. The local police insist he is a wanted criminal hunted by Interpol for 30 years. Interpol and the UK Government officially deny this. On 11 January 2002 the High Court in Himachal Pradesh decided that Ian is "not deaf" and rejected his appeal. On 6 May he was refused leave to appeal to the Supreme Court in Delhi. For more info visit