Surya McEwen

Okay.

But we refused to be let off until they were returned to us.

And most, like all of them were except for Tiago and Safe.

And so it was this negotiation with the Greek military who was off-boarding us into Crete.

Um, but we weren't able to get Tiago in safe.

It was obvious that they, they had a strategy and they weren't going to let them, they weren't going to let them go.

Well, basically to take people who they thought were the leaders of the, of the movement and to take them back to, to occupy Palestine and,

and to take them through the courts there, which obviously we were very worried for our comrades that we could hear them being tortured.

And yeah, that that week or so when they were in prison was

was rough on top of the violence that everyone experienced being imprisoned and then being deported and then figuring out how or what we would do in terms of carrying on with the mission.

The worry for Tiago and Safe was definitely forefront in our minds over that little period.

Absolutely.

We had some beautiful comrades who had a space for us to stay and gave us some clothes.

Obviously they've taken everything from us.

So we just had our, some of us had our passports and the clothes we were wearing from the prison ship and spent a few days regrouping and figuring out the next steps.

And then we gathered the boats that we had and carried on, went to Marmaris to pick up other comrades from there and keep going with the mission.

I mean, some people were so injured it didn't make sense to be able, like it wasn't possible to carry on with the mission.

People, it's a really, it's a big collective of people.

So people had all sorts of different feelings about it.

Yeah.