A British woman is being held in a Dubai prison dubbed 'the Middle East's Alcatraz' that former inmates have claimed is is run by Russian gangsters after she was caught with 50g of cocaine.
Mia O'Brien, 23, from Huyton, Liverpool, 'made a very stupid mistake', according to her mother Danielle McKenna, 46, after her daughter was given a life sentence.
Mia has been locked up in the notorious Al-Awir Central Prison, which is used for both male and female convicts and is located some 30km from Dubai's towering hotels and lavish shopping malls.
Horror stories from British inmates who have been previously jailed there paint a disturbing picture of its hellish conditions.
Briton Karl Williams was imprisoned at Al-Awir in 2012 after police found narcotics in his rental car following a drug bust.
