Kevin's Story

On July 2, 2024 Kevin a 64 year old husband, father,  brother, and friend left Canada to fly to South Africa on business transiting through Dubai. On July 3 at the Dubai airport his luggage was flagged, he was stopped, searched and detained for possessing a small amount of Cannabis and CBD. 
To make matters even more difficult, he suffers from Addison's disease which is a disease where your adrenal glands shut down and your body no longer produces cortisone on its own. 
Without receiving the proper medications consistently his immune system became compromised and he contracted a MRSA infection, resulting in 2 emergency surgeries to remove the infection from his chest wall, an open wound and multiple rounds of intravenous antibiotics, he spent 40 days in the hospital. 
On Sept 28, he was moved back to detention with an open wound and directions to change the dressing twice daily. As of today the wound is still open as he fights to stay alive and tries to avoid becoming reinfected. 
On October 31, one week after a brief hearing Kevin was sentenced to life in prison. On December 25, 2024 his appeal hearing resulted in further delays until Jan 8 then Feb 5 and again until Feb 26, 2025. 

As a Canadian citizen it is hard to imagine this ever happening.