Cardiff man freed after five years in Yemen detention
Aged 20, he made a pilgrimage to Mecca before travelling to Egypt, and then Yemen, where he taught English and married.When conflict broke out in 2015, he and his wife Tagreed left the country, but could not return to the UK because she had lost her passport amid the chaos.Two years later, as he presented his British passport to withdraw money to fund his family's passage out of Yemen, he was arrested as a suspected spy.
However, the uprising from the Houthis started in 2011 with Yemen's long-standing authoritarian president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, being forced to hand over power to his deputy, Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi. His relatives have said that his physical and mental health had degenerated during solitary confinement in the capital Sanaa.'Going through hell'
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