Puerto Rico ? A well-behaved detainee at Guantanamo Bay was allowed to make a rare phone call to his wife in London recently, his attorney said Thursday.

Jamil el-Banna, a 38-year-old Jordanian with British residency, had a tearful conversation with his wife, Sabah el-Banna, for an hour Oct. 19, his attorney, Brent Mickum, told The Associated Press. She went to the U.S. Embassy in London to receive the call, authorities said.

“When I heard his voice, I started crying, he cried too,” she told a British newspaper, the Willesden & Brent Times.

“He told me that when the prison guards led him away from his camp, he thought he was going to be interrogated again,” she added. “He didn’t even know he was going to speak to me, so hearing my voice was a complete shock to him.”

Hundreds of detainees at the isolated prison camp have been imprisoned for years without ever speaking with their families.

But Mickum told the AP the military allowed el-Banna to make the long-distance phone call on humanitarian grounds because his mother recently died. El-Banna has one of the best behavior records among the detainees at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, the attorney said.