TEHRAN, Jan 27 - Amnesty International criticized Saudi regime for torturing and mistreating Saudi Arabian human rights activists jailed by the regime.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - Amnesty issued a statement uncovering new testimonies indicating the regime's brutal treatment to the activist whimsically detained and kept in jail since May 2018.
Based on the statement the datainees suffuer diffrent kinds of psychological and physiacal tortures as well as sexual abuse.
“One of the interrogators told one of the female activists falsely that her family members had died and made her believe it for one month,” one testimony reveals.
One female activist said that interrogators poured water into her mouth as she screamed while she was tortured. Other male and female activists said that they were tortured with electric shocks, Amnesty International reported.
The statement highlighted the urgent need to allow independent observers to access to the detention center where the activists are being held to investigate the allegations.
In December, Amnesty sent a letter to the Saudi authorities requesting that independent oversight bodies, including international organisations, be allowed access to human rights defenders, but the organisation has not yet received a response.
The Saudi Ministry of Media, however, denied these allegations and described them as “baseless”.
Since May, Saudi authorities have detained more than a dozen prominent women’s rights activists, most of whom have formerly campaigned for the right for women to drive.
Saudi Arabia’s human rights record has also come under scrutiny after the killing of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the kingdom’s consulate in the Turkish city of Istanbul last October.
Source: middleeastmonitor website
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