World IN BRIEF : BRITAIN : Mann Flies Home, Speaks of Torture
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Jack Mann, looking frail but in good spirits, flew into Britain to a hero’s welcome after more than two years in solitary confinement at the hands of Lebanese kidnapers. A British television station quoted Mann, 77, as telling his wife, Sunny, that he had been tortured. He said he was chained to a wall and moved from place to place in the trunk of a car. The Shiite Muslim Revolutionary Justice Organization, which released Mann on Tuesday, kept him in almost total isolation, he said.
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