The wife of a B.C. man who has spent two years in a Mexican jail without trial says one of the charges against her husband could be dropped -- but he's far from being a free man.
Pavel Kulisek was arrested in March 2008 while on vacation with his family. His motorcycling buddy turned out to be a drug dealer, and Kulisek was arrested and accused of having ties to organized crimes.
His wife Jirina Kuliskova says he had only just met the man, and that Kulisek was in the wrong place at the wrong time. She has been fighting for his release ever since.
And they may be making progress. A single drug charge could be dropped, Kuliskova said, pending approval from a review panel -- but that approval could take months, and other charges remains.
Kulisek's doctor Ramona Penner says she visited him recently in Mexico. She said he looked clean but thin, and that his skin was "pale and greyish."
The family says Kulisek spends 22 hours per day in his cell with a Bible, a Spanish dictionary and the occaisional book.
"What would that do to a person?" Penner asked. "Most people would go crazy, would be suicidal, wouldn't be coping. But he's a very strong person."
Kuliskova and the couple's children are living in a renovated garage, renting out their home to pay the bills. She swears her husband is innocent, and has no criminal record.
"I'm going to bring him home, no matter how long it takes, no matter what it takes," she said. "I just have to make sure I don't lose this kind of spirit."
With a report from CTV British Columbia's St. John Alexander
