The Wilson Company
Dallas Texas
USA

Please advise Mr. Wilson that I am working on the additional materials that he asked for, including the cover for the book \u201cPHARAOH\u201d. I should have both ready by early November. That is, barring any further technical problems with my computer or new harassment from some prison official. It is this last issue that has me deeply concerned and also anxious. Somehow I need to impress these fears on the Bulgarian Minister for Justice, the Office of the President for the Republic of Bulgaria and Canada Foreign Affairs Ottawa. For that I need to ask for your help as a fellow Canadian and for Mr. Wilson\u2019s help as my publisher.

It seems that the Bulgaria\u2019s Minister for Justice is unaware of my written expressions of these fears, this despite the numerous letters I have sent to his office. This worries me. I sincerely believe it to be only due to the past interest of the Ministry for Justice that

However, the Warden of the Sofia prison, Mr. Dimitar Raichev, has been making threats that he considers these to be \u201cprivileges\u201d and he will attempt to interrupt my work on the book with Mr. Wilson and also obstruct me from pursuing the discrimination and slander lawsuits filed in Bulgaria. These are against the Ministry for Justice\u2019s Main Directorate for the Execution of Punishments in Sofia (that\u2019s the equivalent of Canada\u2019s Correction Services). Warden Raichev has refused all my requests to meet with him and discuss what it is about me that disturbs him so much.

I cannot offer anything concrete, and so far I am grateful that Warden Raichev is tolerating me, but only just, and most certainly he is in no way supporting me or the Ministry for Justice by allowing me to work. But Warden Raichev knows that the materials I am providing to Mr. Wilson, and collecting from the courts may ultimately reveal some of the corruption, mistreatment and discrimination I have suffered and have witnessed at the Sofia Prison since 1998. Such facts are not flattering to the Sofia Prison and I am afraid that Warden Raichev is only waiting for the smallest excuse to bring to my work with Mr. Wilson to an abrupt end.

Having said that, I wanted to ask you if during your last 12 days in Bulgaria there was any way you could personally convey my fears by meeting with a representative from the Ministry for Justice and Office for the President of the Republic of Bulgaria? Maybe even ask a Canadian consulate representative to accompany you?

Again I emphasize that no one here at the prison is bothering or interfering with my work at this moment. It is just that this fear is being exasperated by the refusal of anyone at the Ministry for Justice to discuss these concerns. It is my hope that you can make a difference.

The Ministry for Justice
Republic of Bulgaria
Office of the Minister
The Honorable Mr. George Petkanov
No. 1 Slavianski Blvd.
Sofia Bulgaria

I am a citizen of Canada and visiting Bulgaria to do some photography and research for the publisher of a book on the life story of Mr. Michael Kapoustin and his Bulgarian company\u2019s work on a patented HIV/AIDS medicine.

On October 24th 2005, I had the opportunity to visit Mr. Kapoustin at the Sofia Prison for only 25 minutes. Oddly enough the prison Warden refused to allow me to present gifts of food to Mr. Kapoustin, and further, I was provided with no reason. During that visit Mr. Kapoustin expressed his anxiety of being persecuted and harassed by some senior prison officials who are against his writing this book and angry at him for having filed discrimination lawsuits against the prison and its staff. His fear was very real, and although he attempted to appear relaxed his anxiety was completely apparent to me as he later mailed me the attached letter and asked me to come and see you.

Therefore, I would be grateful for a chance to visit you and express to you, or your deputy, my serious concerns as a Canadian and those of the U.S. publisher Mr. Wilson over the safety and well being of Mr. Kapoustin at Sofia Central Prison. This is particularly relevant since Bulgaria together with the Government of Canada is championing the human rights of Bulgaria\u2019s citizens in Libya.

Minister Petkanov, it seems Mr. Kapoustin, as a citizen of Canada, needs some friends in Bulgaria as much as Bulgaria\u2019s citizens need friends in Libya. In researching this book for Mr. Wilson I learned that the previous Minister for Justice, Mr. Anton Stankov, communicated to Mr. Wilson that it is Bulgarian public opinion that prevented the