That's The Guardian for you, what a misnomer.
When I was stationed on a ship homeported outside of the US, one of our duties when we pulled into a certain port was to send meals to some incarcerated soul who wound up afoul of local law, I never learned the details but I have no reason to think that person was innocent and caught up in some macabre foreign plot to imprison interlopers. Not long after, I heard about someone caught trying to import cocaine into that same country, and getting caught. I think he got 10 years, popular wisdom says prison in that country is no joy ride.
Bottom line, shit happens and it happens all over. Gone are the days of the US invading to free a "wrongly" imprisoned US citizen, or wreaking vengeance for a US citizen "wrongly" abducted or killed. Shit happens. We are not special.
Reese