The 43-year-old construction worker from Fife was arrested on an Interpol red notice at Baghdad airport on 12 September this year as he travelled to start a new job.
"If it wasn't for the support from everybody back home, my family and my friends, Douglas Chapman, Radha Stirling, I would still have been there," Mr Glendinning said.
"To be honest, I think I would have been on my way to Qatar and it wouldn't have been for the World Cup."He was unable to shave during the time in prison - with his brother John saying there had only been a single communal shaver in the jail, where Mr Glendinning had been kept in"vile" conditions.His wife Kimberly said he had missed her 40th birthday while behind bars, but added with him returning"that's my birthday and Christmas in one".
Speaking about Mr Glendinning's time in prison, he added:"He was in with the Taliban, he was in with murderers, and all of £4,000 of debt.Ms Stirling said:"This is the moment we have been working towards the past five weeks and we're incredibly relieved to see him back on UK soil. "Brian is going to take some time to rest and recuperate with his family before telling the world about the horrific experience he was forced to endure at the hands of Qatar, a country who has spent a fortune portraying itself as a tolerant society.
"Once Brian has rested, we intend to push for British safeguards and to hold Qatar to account for the repeated abuse of our citizens".
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