Freedom is an extremely high commodity. What a high good "freedom" is, one knows to appreciate especially when this freedom is taken away by imprisonment. Here are some of our clients who were imprisoned abroad.
Serving a prison sentence is an extreme situation for the prisoner himself, but also for his family. No prison sentence and no detention centre is nice.
However, if the criminal detention abroad has to be served in the corresponding foreign detention centre, this again represents an increased burden. We represent and help you as a lawyer, in particular, to serve the foreign prison sentence in Germany (execution of a foreign conviction in Germany) and or to be released from detention abroad.
Some of our clients shared with us the following experiences in detention centres abroad:
At that time I was surprisingly imprisoned at the airport in Istanbul. Suddenly I was on trial in a country where I had only travelled for vacation and was sentenced to a prison sentence.
I spent six horrible months in prison in Istanbul. The time was terrible and the conditions on site hardly bearable. Added to this was the lack of contact with my family. Attorney Nobis has managed to get me out of this inhumane situation. I was fired, but to this day it feels like I spent more than six months there.
I really don't wish this experience on anyone!
For most people, Dubai is a place of luxury and a dazzling world worth visiting. But unfortunately this does not apply if you are in detention there.
Dubai presents itself as a safe city with cameras on almost every corner. In prison, however, there is no such protection for the prisoners. They are like free game there and human rights simply do not exist here. I've seen cruel things I'll never forget: guards who hit prisoners and played off their power. Fortunately, I myself survived this time physically safe and unharmed, but it was characterised by fear, in addition to the already difficult conditions of detention.
I am incredibly grateful to be free again, and I appreciate my freedom incredibly.
I spent four months in a prison in Poland before I was transferred to a German prison thanks to lawyer Nobis. In the German prison I had to serve another two years, but these felt shorter than the 4 months in Poland.
In Poland, the hygienic conditions were disgusting, my cell was tiny and I only had daylight when the sun was shining particularly strongly. Sometimes I was allowed to walk around the yard to at least get some movement, but that was not the rule.
I had to experience firsthand that there are no equal minimum requirements for the accommodation of prisoners within Europe.
A prison sentence remains a prison sentence, but I can say quite clearly: The prison sentence in Germany was far more bearable and the treatment of people more respectful. I sincerely hope not to have to gain any further experience, but I can clearly say: There are clear differences between the detention centres - and also within the EU.