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Amnesty International Saudi Arabia Campaign End secrecy - End Suffering AI: Saudi Arabia Campaign - End Secrecy - End Suffering
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REPORT
o Saudi Arabia: A secret state of suffering

ISSUES
o Index

o torture

o death penalty

o migrant workers

o political prisoners

o military, security and police relations

BRIEFING
End Secrecy End Suffering

COUNTRY INDEX:
o Saudi Arabia

OTHER LANGUAGES:
o French
o Spanish
o Italian
o German
o Czech

HOME:
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INTRODUCTION
Imagine you are arrested and locked up, but you are not told why. You are not allowed to make a telephone call or contact anyone outside the prison. This would be terrifying enough by itself. Now imagine that your jailers begin torturing you. The only way to stop them is to sign a confession, which you eventually do. Then you are convicted on the basis of that "confession" after a summary trial that is held in secret. You have no access to a lawyer and you are not offered the opportunity to defend yourself. Finally, imagine you are living in a country where the punishment you might face after such summary justice could be death, amputation of a limb, or flogging.

Such terror and injustice is hard to imagine. Yet it is routinely suffered by people in Saudi Arabia - and the world's governments seem indifferent to their plight.

Fear and secrecy permeate every aspect of the state in Saudi Arabia.

Your first stop here should be our briefing: Saudi Arabia - End Secrecy End Suffering. This provides a broad overview of the secrecy and suffering permeating every aspect of the state in Saudi Arabia and providing testimony and individual reports.

Saudi Arabia Briefing:
End Secrecy End Suffering
appeals appeals appeals
Muhammad Muhammad al-Hayek
Death in custody
Hani Hani al-Sayegh
Deported, detained, denied basic rights
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KIT OF THE SITE
You can help break the fear and secrecy: Downlaod the sitedownload the kit version of this site and you could redistribute it - or republish it on your own website - perhaps even send it to the Saudi authorities - simpler still save it to your own hard-drive to read at your own leisure ... whichever you do you will be helping break the fear, helping break the silence.

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