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psychologically and physically. Many people have been held without charge, have no current, pending, or even past court dates, nor future release date. Past prisoners report being subjected to constant psychological, environmental, physical, social and sexual torture. Many noted persons are confirmed to be held there under these conditions and many other individuals suspected to be there, as the Saudi government limits communication for captives and refuses to provide information concerning certain detainees as a policy.
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are held there. There is also confirmation of unfavored royal family members being held there which include princess and princes, journalists, business rivals, political rivals, international prisoners or alleged dissidents or persons needing to be silenced, made an example of, and destroyed
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visited al-Ha'ir prison, including one cell that looked "spartan but clean", in which an inmate described the conditions as "good". Sullivan's host described the prison as illustrating the "government’s strategy of showering inmates with perks rather than locking them down in harsh,
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spent over two decades visiting Saudi Arabia advising on prison warden training and stated to Sullivan that he expected prisoners in Saudi Arabian prisons "to be treated nicely — that's their religion". As of 2015, Hill had never visited any Saudi prison. Sullivan also interviewed
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were detained at al-Ha'ir on 6 January 2018, after they publicly protested in opposition to a new government policy requiring royal family members to pay their own electricity and water bills and with a request for monetary compensation for a death sentence against one of their
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In October 2004, former detainees William Sampson, Sandy Mitchell and Les Walker, part of a group of nine foreign nationals convicted of bombing,
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of prisoners in Saudi prisons are widespread" and that "torture can still happen even in nice-looking prisons — when no one is looking".
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Brother of Saudi women’s rights activist ‘being tortured in prison’ fears her treatment is getting worse
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rate for terrorist incidents by ex-detainees was twenty percent, and Sevag Kechichian of
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to sue for redress for wrongful conviction and torture. Named in the suit were:
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Hani al-Sayegh, deported, detained, denied basic rights
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Al-Ha'ir Prison
24°26′56″N 46°48′47″E / 24.449°N 46.813°E / 24.449; 46.813 (Al-Ha'ir Prison)
Arabic
Mabahith
Riyadh
al-Qaeda
The Washington Post
Guantanamo Bay
International Corrections and Prisons Association
Ministry of Interior
recidivism
Amnesty International
torture

William Sampson
Sandy Mitchell
Mohammad Al-Harbi
Hani al-Sayegh
Khobar towers bombing
Al-Waleed bin Talal
2017 Saudi Arabian purge
The Ritz-Carlton, Riyadh
House of Saud
Loujain al-Hathloul
Basmah bint Saud bin Abdulaziz al-Saud
terrorism
espionage
Court of Appeal of England and Wales
Prince Naif
Mabahith

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