- Extent of Saudi prison torture revealed in new report
Posted by sashimi
on July 22, 2021, 10:53 am
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Abhijan Choudhury, 21 July 2021 Lede: The report by Human Rights Watch exposes the lack of accountability for the extreme acts of torture, as well as the complicity of the Saudi legal and other institutions in covering up and enabling these human rights violations to continue unabated (quote) A report by the Human Rights Watch (HRW) published on July 11 has revealed new evidence of torture against prisoners, including women activists, in Saudi Arabia. The report is based on a series of text messages by anonymous Saudi prison guards stationed at the Dhabhan prison, north of Jeddah, and another secret prison. The report confirms previous allegations and describes in depth the dehumanization of detainees by the Saudi prison authorities. In one text message, a prison guard describes the torture endured by a prominent Saudi woman activist arrested in May 2018. He says, "in one of her torture sessions, [name withheld] lost consciousness and we were all terrified. We feared that she had died and that we would bear responsibility because the instructions were to not kill any of the detainees, men or women." (/quote) -- Cont'd at https://peoplesdispatch.org/2021/07/21/extent-of-saudi-prison-torture-revealed-in-new-report/ |
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