ArmA 3 developers Ivan Buchta and Martin Pezlar have been refused bail, being held for 70 days in an overcrowded Greek cell, and have now been refused an appeal against their charges of espionage.<\/p>\n
The Czech friends will now be tried in a Greek court \u2013 they\u2019ve waited for weeks to hear their appeal verdict due to a strike in the Greek legal system. The pair have been accused of spying on Greek military installations, and are looking at up to 20 years in jail.<\/p>\n
ArmA 3 is set on the island where they were arrested, but developer Bohemia Interactive has claimed that the two were just there on holiday.<\/p>\n
The Czech developers have spoken about the less-than-stellar conditions they\u2019re living in before, but did they say they were being treated fairly. According to their family, things haven\u2019t improved, and the two have lost their hopeful optimism.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey’re in a cell with over 25 people, they sleep on the ground,” Miloslav Buchta, father of Ivan, said. “They have food twice a day.”<\/p>\n
\u201cOur boys no longer tell us on the phone that it’s alright, that they’re handling it,” one of their mothers’ said. “After the court’s decision we only hear from them something that no parent ever wants to hear: Mom, dad, please save us.”<\/p>\n
The men\u2019s families are now trying to take the matter to the Czech president and prime minister, saying that the country\u2019s foreign ministry haven\u2019t done enough to help.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe cannot agree with the statement [that we’re not doing enough],” a foreign ministry spokesman said. “We are very intensely working on this matter from all possible angles.\u201d<\/p>\n
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