Billie hayes biography midnight express
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Midnight Express
Midnight Express tells the gut-wrenching true story of a young man's incarceration and escape from a Turkish prison. A classic story of survival and human endurance, told with humor, honesty, and heart, it became a worldwide best-seller and the Academy Award-winning blockbuster film of the same name. In 1970 Billy Hayes was an English major who left college in search of adventures to write about, like his hero Jack London. He had a rude awakening when he was arrested at the airport in Istanbul trying to board a plane while carrying four pounds of hashish, and given a life sentence. After five brutal years, relentless efforts by his family to gain his release, and endless escape plotting, Hayes finally took matters into his own hands. On a dark night, in a wailing storm he began a desperate and daring escape to freedom... This is the astounding journey, told in Billy Hayes's own words, of those five years of living hell and of the harrowing ordeal of his time on
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Billy Hayes (writer)
American writer, actor and film director
Not to be confused with Bill Hayes (writer).
William "Billy" Hayes (born April 3, 1947) is an American writer, actor, film director and convicted drug smuggler. He is best known for his autobiographical book Midnight Express about his experiences in and escape from a Turkish prison, after being convicted of smuggling hashish. He was one of hundreds of US citizens in foreign jails serving drug charge sentences, following a drug-smuggling crackdown by foreign governments.[2]
Background
[edit]Hayes was caught trying to smuggle four pounds (1.81 kg) of hashish out of Turkey on October 7, 1970. He was originally sentenced to four years and two months in a Turkish prison. With his release date weeks away, he learned that the authorities had chosen to penalize him with a life sentence for smuggling, instead of possession.[3]
Hayes was imprisoned at Sağmalcılar prison in Istanbul[4] aft
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Midnight Express
Το πώς αυτό το βιβλίο παρέμενε τόσα χρόνια αδιάβαστο στη βιβλιοθήκη μου -ειδικά από τη στιγμή που τέτοιου είδους βιβλία πραγματικά τα απολαμβάνω-, είναι κάτι που δεν μπορώ να εξηγήσω. Πάντως βρήκα καλή την ιδέα να διαβάσω τώρα το βιβλίο, που τις περισσότερες ώρες της ημέρας είμαι κλεισμένος στο σπίτι ελέω Κορωνοϊού, ίσως για να εκτιμήσω καλύτερα τις ανέσεις του (έστω και αν έχω μπουχτίσει), συγκρίνοντάς τες με τις εφιαλτικές στιγμές που έζησε ο Μπίλι Χέις, ένας νεαρός Αμερικανός, στις τουρκικές φυλακές.
Που λέτε, τον Οκτώβριο του 1970 ο Μπίλι Χέις συνελήφθη τυχαία στο αεροδρόμιο της Κωνσταντινούπολης επειδή προσπάθησε να μεταφέρει λαθραία δυο κιλά χασίς στις Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες, με αποτέλεσμα να καταδικαστεί σε τριάντα χρόνια κάθειρξη (!) στις τουρκικές φυλακές. Για πέντε χρόνια ο Χέις υπέφερε τη βρόμα, τη βια και τον εξευτελισμό του εγκλεισμού στις τριτοκοσμικές τουρκικές φυλακές, προσπαθώντας να μην τρελαθεί και ελπίζοντας πάντα σε