Christopher Ems

I said, no.

They said, should we send you to America now or do you reject extradition?

I said, I reject extradition.

And they said, OK, the process now is we will decide if this is a crime.

And I said, well, how long is that going to take?

And they said, be prepared to be here for a very long time, Mr. M.

So I get back to the prison, then the prisoners speak to the guard and they translate for me because my Arabic's terrible.

and and they say look he's saying that they're going to try and get it get you out again this was a time where i encountered this is the only time actually i encountered a very very friendly and kind prison guard he went to me he was undoing my shackles at the airport and he said so i'm speaking a little bit of arabic he's being english and he basically says to me you're british what are you doing in here he's like this is not this is not the usual people that we pick up and you know of

the region right so he goes away and he gets the prosecutor's letter he manages to get it before they close they let me out they say you know see you later and i literally get on my phone i book the nearest hotel possible i get to the hotel and i start calling so i'm like i need a lawyer i haven't got a lawyer in saudi so i reach out to a lady called rada sterling

He was amazing.

So Radha is essentially someone that helps people that have been detained unjustly.

She called me up with five minutes.

She goes, no worries.

I've got it.

I'll get you a lawyer.

We'll get this together.

We need to do a PR campaign straight away.

We need to show that how wrong this is, et cetera, et cetera.

So I got the lawyer.

The lawyer flew down the next day.