{"id":371469,"date":"2022-11-27T02:45:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T02:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=371469"},"modified":"2022-11-27T03:42:22","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T03:42:22","slug":"british-father-tells-of-rats-ordeal-after-being-released-from-iraqi-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/british-father-tells-of-rats-ordeal-after-being-released-from-iraqi-jail","title":{"rendered":"British father tells of rats ordeal after being released from Iraqi jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A British father who was held in Iraq over an alleged unpaid debt has told of the dreadful conditions he endured in prison where he saw rats as big as cats. Brian Glendinning, 43, said he &#8220;pressed the pause button&#8221; on his life during two months in jail where getting through the days was just &#8220;survival&#8221;. He had been contracted to work at an oil refinery in Iraq but was arrested on an Interpol red notice at Baghdad Airport on September 12 over an alleged debt owed to the Qatar National Bank. If you&#8217;ve seen Trainspotting and the toilet scene in that, it was 10 times worse, it was just rats everywhere Brian Glendinning The father of three was eventually freed after campaigning by the Interpol and Extradition Reform (Ipex) initiative, and returned to Scotland on November 19. He described his experiences to Ipex founder Radha Stirling , who hosts the Gulf in Justice Podcast. Mr Glendinning said rats infested<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A British father who was held in Iraq over an alleged unpaid debt has told of the dreadful conditions he endured in prison where he saw rats as big as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-public-safety"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}