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British probe into torture of Saudi women right activists
4-1-2019
British lawmakers filed on January a request to the Saudi Ambassador to London, Prince Mohamad Bin Nawaf Bin Abdul Aziz, asking to meet Saudi women activists detained in the Kingdom following human rights organizations reports of abuse and torture inside the prison. Conservative MP Crispin Blunt voiced his fears over the suspicious circumstances surrounding the detention of the Saudi women activists that are quite below the Saudi and international standards, “hence our request,” Blunt said. UK members of Parliament formed a probe committee in November to investigate Human Rights Watch allegations stating that the Saudi authorities have tortured the female prisoners using electric shocks. Activists were campaigning for women’s right to drive and related freedoms (c.f: https://goo.gl/zWudYY). Recalling, that the Saudi government, in an earlier statement to CNN, has refuted the allegations contained in the HRW report, and has categorically and strongly denied them according to the Saudi official news agency. Such claims, it maintained, which are quoted from anonymous or uninformed sources, are simply fabricated and totally untrue. (Al Diyar, January 4, 2019)
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