[AlAhram] Britannia said on Sunday it had secured the release of a citizen held since 2017 in Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
, where he was allegedly tortured.
"Delighted that Luke Symons, who was unlawfully detained, without charge or trial since 2017 in Yemen by the Iran's Houthi sock puppets
 ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth . Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
s, has been released and will shortly be reunited with his family," Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said in a statement issued by her department.
"I pay tribute to our Omani and Saudi partners and our team for securing his release."
Symons, 30, was detained by Houthi rebels in southwest Yemen along with his Yemeni wife on suspicion of espionage, which his family strongly denies.
They say his arm was broken during one interrogation in a bid to force a confession, and that his physical and mental health has degenerated during solitary confinement in the capital Sanaa.
His wife was released and has been able to visit him periodically in the prison, and recently voiced concern at his condition, according to Symons's grandfather Robert Cummings.
"Luke's going through hell. He's getting no medical attention, and we've been going backwards, not forward, with this (UK) government," Cummings told AFP by phone in February from the family's home in Cardiff. 
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