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Film-maker jailed off West Africa  Graham Hughes Graham Hughes
is currently in Eugenio Lima prison on Sao Tiago  A film-maker
from Merseyside has been arrested and jailed in the Cape Verde
Islands, off the coast of West Africa.  Graham Hughes contacted
his relatives in Liverpool on Saturday to say he had been jailed
on the island of Sao Tiago.  It is believed the 30-year-old
video director was arrested on suspicion of entering the country
illegally after arriving by boat from Dakar in Senegal.  He had
gone to the island as part of a challenge to visit all of the
United Nations' 192 member states in a year.  Mr Hughes's older
brother, Alex Hughes said: "He managed to get through to us
yesterday.  "It was a very bad line and he basically said he'd
been arrested and he was in a cell with 10 other guys.  My
parents are beside themselves with worry. It's a bad time Alex
Hughes, arrested man's brother  "We've since found out that he's
in the Eugenio Lima