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Young UK men 'tortured' while held in Yemen
A group of British Muslims who were detained and allegedly tortured last month while traveling in Yemen say their interrogators demanded detailed information about mosques in London and their associates in Britain.
The three young men and a teenage boy were held for almost five weeks after being dragged off a bus outside the capital, Sana'a, where they had enrolled in an Arabic language institute a few days earlier.
They say that while being held at a prison run by one of the Yemeni Government's intelligence agencies they were beaten, deprived of sleep and forced to watch others being tortured. They allege that they were then ordered to write a list of mosques they attended in London, told to describe those mosques and some of the people who pray there, and instructed to hand over the names and telephone numbers of some of their associates in Britain.