Kiwi Glen Johnson travelled in a small boat from Africa to Yemen with people smugglers.
When he got there he was abandoned in the desert, then thrown in prison with no rights, no charges and no access to lawyers.
After arriving in Yemen, Johnson was driven into a desert and picked up by local police who drove him to a state security prison. He was shunted from jail to jail and ended up imprisoned with Al-Qaeda suspects.
His worried family, back in the tiny Waikato settlement of Piopio, struggled to find information on his whereabouts and the authorities weren’t forthcoming.
60 Minutes reporter Melissa Davies goes to the Middle East to speak to Johnson and find out his story.