When 23-year-old law student Mia O'Brien was sentenced to life in prison in Dubai this summer, her family feared the worst. Those fears are not unfounded.
Another Briton, David Haigh, once spent nearly two years inside the same Al-Awir jail, and his harrowing descriptions of cockroaches, torture, and toilets that were little more than holes in the ground paint a terrifying picture of what awaits O'Brien in the years ahead.
