He was sentenced to 46 years in jail.
"I don't believe that any guerrilla is going to turn in his weapon only to go and die in a US jail," Santos said in March.
The weaker currency that would result from leaving the euro is not a get out of jail free card, far from it.
US diplomats in Yemen say they have been in contact with an American citizen whose lawyers consider him to have disappeared from jail in the country.
At least four are now dead and one is in jail after returning to Britain.
She was released on bail after two months but was rearrested in January after posting a video on YouTube describing how prison guards mistreated her physically while she was in jail.
Before being cut off by a prison official, Tolokonnikova said: "I hope they don't have the impudence to jail him – because, after all, he is even more of a media figure among the people than the members of Pussy Riot, at least in Russia.
They spent months in jail before being released on their own recognizance in November 2013, and then were convicted on a lesser charge of child endangerment and sentenced to three years in prison in March of this year.
Greste has written two letters from jail, desperately trying to make the authorities understand that he is caught in "a political struggle that is not my own".
It could only be used in dealing with commonwealth terrorism offences with a maximum penalty of at least seven years in jail.
They point out that the Brotherhood leaders, most of whom had been arrested only days earlier, left jail along with 20,000 other prisoners after prison guards left their positions en masse amid the chaos of the revolution in early 2011.
