British pensioner still suffering for free speech

A UK pensioner is still stuck in US prison after refusing to remove slanderous statements from his website which referred to a retirement home that threw him out on the streets.

Paul Trummel, a 70-year-old man who moved from the UK to the US in 1985 was locked up three months ago after posting comments on his personal website about a retirement home.

He was jailed for an indefinite period in solitary confinement on 27 February this year for violating an anti-harassment order placed on him by the retirement home.

The home evicted Trummel last year for being abusive and stalking other inmates.

Trummel placed phone numbers, addresses and other personal information about staff on his web site.

He also posted a picture of the home's administrator on his site that he had doctored to make him look like Osama Bin Laden.

International groups are up in arms over Trummel's confinement, including the National Union of Journalists in the UK, Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press in Washington and Reporters Sans Frontieres in France.