When will Free’s hostage ordeal in Cancun jail end?- December 4, 2010
On the morning of October 11th, 2009, Alain Ferrat Mancera, Cancun city councillor for Tourism(!!) and leader of the Green Party in the state, had an innocent foreigner accused for attacking his brother Ivan Ferrat Mancera. The accusation was necessary because Ivan had hurt himself while attacking that foreigner, and the insurance company would only pay for Ivan’s hospitalization costs if he had been the one attacked. ....Read on

AMSTERDAM DEMANDS FREE’S RELEASE AND STARTS EMAIL ACTION TO COP16 IN CANCUN - November 19, 201
Finally Dutch politicians are also prepared to intervene in the case of Free Bronkhorst. Wednesday, Nov. 17th, Sharon Gesthuizen, member of the Socialist Party of the Netherlands, appealed through questions in parliament to the minister of Foreign Affairs, to do everything possible so that Mexican authorities would consider releasing Free while he’s waiting for the judge to sentence in the process against him. The latest forensic reports have confirmed beyond any doubt the innocence of Free:.... Read on

Free Free Now, Ferrat behind bars! - November 11th, 2010
It’s already more than a year ago that our family member and friend Free Bronkhorst, a young Dutchman who worked hard to realise his dream to start his own restaurant in idyllic Tulum, was put behind bars. He is accused of having attacked and wounded Ivan Ferrat Mancera, brother of Alain Ferrat Mancera, boss of the local green party PVEM of the state of Quintana Roo. A video clip shows however irrefutably that it was Free who was attacked..... Read on

Read about the kidnapping of Free's lawyer, January 9, 2010
The trial of Free took another bizarre turn when it became known that his lawyer, Gerardo Solis Barreto, returned home Friday evening after having been released by kidnappers.
Shortly after his release he told Free’s family over the phone about his ordeal. With a quivering voice, interrupted by long pauses, he told of having been abducted at gunpoint on Wednesday afternoon and having been taken to a location where he had been held incommunicado for three days. On Friday his captors instructed him to stop his defense of Free, making it clear to him with one simple movement that if he didn’t comply heads would roll. Read on

The last news in Free's case, from Cancun, ‘vipers nest’ in Maya. 7 01 2010
Things seemed all of a sudden to start moving in Cancun since the kidnapping of Ana Fernandez-Villaplana, the mother of Free, last December 9th – by 4 sicarios instructed to kill her - quickly ended by the Cancun police. Perhaps people realised that the murder of a mother claiming the innocence of her son in the face of the lies and manipulations of her mighty adversary, is not necessarily always the best way to quiet a public opinion that got interested in the story, reported on a daily basis by the press.... Read on