David Davis asks foreign secretary and Saudi ambassador to intervene in reprieve for Hussein Abo al-Kheir
in the World Cup, has prompted the former Conservative cabinet minister David Davis to write to the UK foreign secretary, James Cleverly, and the Saudi ambassador in the UK to ask them to intervene to reprieve Hussein Abo al-Kheir, a Jordanian man.
He was arrested in 2014 for smuggling narcotics when crossing the Jordan border into Saudi, and says he only confessed when he was tortured, including being suspended from his feet and beaten on his stomach and legs. An appeal court lifted a guilty verdict in March 2017, but the government ordered a retrial six months later, leading to him being re-sentenced to death in November 2017.
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