A British woman has spoken publicly for the first time about her husband's alleged abduction and torture by Saudi Arabian authorities, as their family launched a campaign in London to secure his release. Businessman Rami Naimi, son of former Saudi oil minister Ali Al-Naimi, was allegedly seized in Dubai in 2017 while returning from a work trip to Australia, then held and tortured for three months during a wider purge of political, royal and business figures at Riyadh's Ritz-Carlton hotel. He was detained again in 2022 for nearly two years and was sentenced last year to six years in prison following a secret trial.

His wife, Mira Lozi, described living in fear "like ghosts" in Dubai after his initial disappearance, not knowing for months whether he was alive, and said she had stayed silent since 2017 in the hope of securing his release. The family say Mr Naimi was blindfolded, taken by car to Abu Dhabi and flown to Saudi Arabia, where he was electrocuted, waterboarded and psychologically abused, before being released under house arrest after allegedly being forced to sign a settlement pledging to surrender £200 million. His son Ali, who was 12 at the time, said the ordeal left his father "a different man" and left him himself traumatised, having spent much of his life without his father present.