Saudi Arabia Accused of Inhumane Secret Detention Centers, Torture
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Saudi Arabia, apparently, has been accused of holding more than 3,000 people in secret detention centers. They are also accused of using torture to extract confessions in its anti-terrorism crackdown since the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks, according to Amnesty International.
The international community is being criticized for turning a blind eye to the kingdom’s methods in its crackdown. Saudi Arabia has carried out a heavy wave of arrests against al-Qaeda members in past years and recently put 300 terrorists to trial in the first known Saudi trials on terrorism.
“These unjust anti-terrorism measures have made an already dire human rights situation worse,” said Malcolm Smart, head of Amnesty’s Middle East and North Africa program, in a press release.
Asked about the report, a Saudi Interior Ministry official, Abdulrahman Alhadlaq, said:
“These are claims that have to be proven…Our policies on human rights are very clear and the orders given are for prisoners to be treated with respect and according to international human rights principles…If anything happened, it would be an individual case and if it is brought to anybody’s attention it will be dealt with.”
