Belgian national Leslie Maras was arrested in February 2006, in Egypt, for smuggling drugs. Maras was not a drug dealer, but he got into it due to financial problems. He was sentenced by Egypt for life imprisonment. In Egypt, this often means 25 years or reaching the age of 60. In case of good behavior, it could be less. Leslie’s prison card mentions that the date of release is 2027, depending on good behavior. In January 2018 President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī released hundreds of prisoners, Leslie was not among them. His working class parents do not know any other language than Dutch, and they did not know how to handle this case due to communication problems, and not being able to sustain continued legal support financially. Mistakes have been made; such as not keeping an extensive file, and the legal support that only came six months after his arrest. Throughout the years, Leslie and other non-Egyptian prisoners have been visited by members of the St. John the Baptist Anglican Church, and Maadi Community Church, both in Maadi, Cairo. Leslie’s parents asked Cornelis Hulsman in February 2018 to help write a pardon petition for Leslie. Cornelis Hulsman asked me and Henk Olthof to visit Leslie in prison, and to write an article describing what we saw.