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A Western Cape magistrate has vowed to raise hell if her teenage son is not released from an infamous southeast Asian jail by the end of the week.

Arno Immelman, the 19-year-old son of Paarl magistrate Anne-Marie Immelman, has been in custody in the infamous Phonthong prison in Laos for the past three weeks. He has neither been charged nor has he appeared in court.

What makes his mother's nightmare even worse is that she has been warned not to "set foot" in the country because she, too, will be arrested.

Immelman said if Arno is not released, she will approach Fair Trials International for a legal adviser to "go there and get my child".

Arno, who is taking a gap year, taught English in Thailand, but crossed the border into neighbouring Laos.

http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2011/07/20/magistrate-s-son-in-laos-jail