Saudi Arabia allows free British elderly

london - Saudi Arabia allows a 74-year-old British man released which was put for illegal possession of alcohol in prison, and that would still get 350 lashes. This has the British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond announced Wednesday.

Hammond himself Wednesday during conversations he had in Saudi Arabia, used personally for the man. According to the minister turns the elderly man next week back to Britain.

According to family members of the 74-year-old last year was arrested and he was besides the corporal punishment imposed one year in prison. That part of the sentence he has already served.