Britons freed in UAE

The UAE has freed three Britons held in Dubai on drugs charges, as part of a Ramadan amnesty. The three – Grant Cameron, Suneet Jeerh and Karl Williams – had been sentenced to four years in jail for possession of synthetic cannabis (GSN 946/1). 
Their detention – and, more specifically, their claims that during their lengthy pre-trial detention they were beaten, given electric shocks and forced to sign Arabic statements while police held guns to their heads – risked becoming a thorny issue between the UAE and Britain.