Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2016 21:38:07 GMT 7
British teacher and backpacker Gavin Topley had to spend a week in a prison at Thailand’s border and slept on floormats amidst cockroaches and bedbugs because his passport was stained.
Topley, 30, was leaving Thailand earlier this month and attempting to enter Vietnam, where he was meant to start a teaching job, but he was denied entry to Vietnam for having stains on his passport that he said came from leaking hand sanitizing gel.
Topley had to return to Bangkok to get a new passport, but he overstayed his visa by a short period. Because overstaying a visa is technically a crime, he couldn’t be released back into the country, and because his passport was damaged, he couldn’t enter another country either.
bangkok.coconuts.co/2016/09/13/brit-backpacker-spends-week-thai-jail-due-stained-passport-calls-it-hell-earth
Topley, 30, was leaving Thailand earlier this month and attempting to enter Vietnam, where he was meant to start a teaching job, but he was denied entry to Vietnam for having stains on his passport that he said came from leaking hand sanitizing gel.
Topley had to return to Bangkok to get a new passport, but he overstayed his visa by a short period. Because overstaying a visa is technically a crime, he couldn’t be released back into the country, and because his passport was damaged, he couldn’t enter another country either.
bangkok.coconuts.co/2016/09/13/brit-backpacker-spends-week-thai-jail-due-stained-passport-calls-it-hell-earth
