Date :07/05/2000
NO : 96 / H / 00
A Protest for the Decision of UN Commissionof
Human Rights while one of the Detainees in Saudi Prisons Send an Appeal for Aid
Behind the Bars.
It is bad time that the right standards and the right
deeds go incorrectly. It is the policy of interests and the control of strong
on the rights of weak. It is the policy of killing Man on account of special
interests. There is no value and credibility for slogans and principles when
the blind eyes turned towards the clear facts.
Our people and all of the world have astonished when
the major members of UN Commission of Human Rights voted on the decision of
joining the Saudi regime to membership of the Commission on 04/05/2000 , while
it continues of committing violations in the field human rights.The Saudi
regime is considered one of the regimes that are contrary with all
international norms and principles and Islamic laws in the field of human rights.
The Saudi regime is bragging with applying of Islamic laws while its prisons
and courts witness the opposite. If the Regime permits the international
monitors and free press and journalists, who are impartial, to visit Saudi
Arabia and see what happens inside the kingdom, the world will see the
humanitarian tragedy in our country and the Regime couldn't deceive the public
opinion with its lies or tricks.
What can we say about
the latest measure of the Commission despite the reports and statements supported
with the evidences which are sent by the human rights organizations and
committees about the Saudi regime?
It is considered as defect for the credibility of this
Commission which represents the International Community.
It is success granted by God that a cry of one of the
detainees in Saudi prisons has come through a message of appeal for all
liberals and the people who suffer of the tyranny and for all human rights
groups. It has come in the same time of that unjust decision. The fates wanted
that one of the detainess who is still held behind the bars and inside the dark
cell to respond on the claims of the Regime and its deceitfulness and the
unjust of the International Community and its silence through his letter which
was written to express the tyranny and despotism that he and other detainees
subjected in the prisons of al-Ha`ir ,al-Dammam, Jeddah, Ihsaa and other
districts of the country.
The fates wanted that this letter reached the
Committee for Defense of Human Rights in Arabian Peninsula (CDHRAP). We attach
it with this statement without the name of its writer who preferred to remain
anonymous.
In the Name of Allah, the Compssionate , the Merciful
All praise is due to Allah , the Lord of the Worlds.
Blessings and peace be upon Muhammad (s) , and his
immaculate , virtuous progeny (s).
Dear brothers,
Peace and blessings of Allah upon you.
There are some important and sensitive matters due to
the situation of our believed brothers inside prison, and I see it is very
important and necessary to clarify them for you , and it is your duty to convey
these information and reports to Amnesty International Organization and other
human rights groups because these matters are related of the believed
individuals who have been suffering of torture , pain and tyranny on the hands
of Saudi torturers. They also clarify the lying of the Regime which denied
political detainees in its prisons and jails and also denied torture.
We try by this quick letter to cover up a lot of
hidden facts behind the bars of these criminals.
1-Now it is a
suitable time to disprove the allegations of Saudi regime that has no detainees
in its prisons, and you should
send all the names of detainees to the human rights organizations with the
number of their telephones. Tell these organizations to make contact with the
families of these detainees and ask them, "Where is so -and- so?"
The question is normally, "in prison".
This will be an evidence of Regime's lies.
2-The Saudi Interior Minister Nayef has claimed that
the detainees who were accused of al-Khobar bombing but we are completely sure
that there are no detainees who have any connection with that bombing and the
Regime doesn't have any evidence to convict anyone.
3-We want to inform Amnesty International about what
happens inside Saudi prisons:
a-Torture:
All the detained believers were subjected to cruel
torture which is prohibited on both Islamic and international levels, as:
-Depriving the detainees of sleep for long time
reaches nearly one month.
-Using electric shocks on some parts of body.
-Suspending the detainee from his tied hands or legs
for long time.
-Sever beating on some parts of body which makes some
detainees to use arm wheels or to crawl on ground and you can see a lot of
spots of blood on the grounds of investigation rooms and the prison.
- Tiding the right hand of the detainee with his left
leg and the left hand with the right leg and hanged on a high spot which causes
sterility.
Sometimes the detainees are tied for three months even
through their sleeping.
-Exposing the detainees to the sexual assault.
-Detaining the prisoners in solitary confinement for
long time reaches more than a year and a half.
-The detainees have not been allowed family visits for
years.
-Exposing the detainees to psychological torture
These are some types of torture which are used against
detainees in the headquarter of al-Mabahith al-`Amma in Dammam city (the
Headquarter of Precautionary and Temporary Detention)
The torture against the detainees has caused some
kinds of diseases for them like renal failure as a result of beating on back
and other parts of body, also piles and bed-wetting as a result of preventing
them to go to W.C. for long periods.
Some of these diseases became deep-rooted as well as
the psychological and nervous ones.
The Saudi regime designed new methods of pronouncing
sentences against detainees in the court.
The judge has no role of pronouncing sentence because
the General Investigation (al-Mabahith al-`Amma) with arrangement with the
Prince of the district who is responsible of pronouncing the sentences and the
judge only cites them.
The defendant is denied access to lawyers and if he
challenges the sentence, the imprisonment will be long. The sentences are often
extemporaneous and incredible.
Some terms of imprisonments are ranging from 1 to 25
years as well as lashing.
The number of lashes ranging from 100 to 2000.
The detainee during the lashing is thrown on the
ground inside a place rounded with law wall and his hand are handcuffed at the
back, then the torturer begins to beat him on his back with whip until
bleeding.
Some of the detainees cry and others fall down unconscious.
The other detainees hear his cries.
The beating causes many diseases as renal failure,
broken bones, some wounds and traces on skin. The detainee couldn't sleep for
several days due to the horrible pain. The beating is carried out with cruel
and disgraceful way which shows the hate on the detainee.
The detainees are prevented to have newspapers,
magazines, books or radios.
They are also denied visit of other relatives except
their parents, wives and sons and sometimes they exposed to indignity through
their visit.
What I mention in this letter is very little and because
of limit time I stop to tell more.
We hope that our friends try to cover up the Regime's
lies and slyness , and it is not suitable be silent because the time now is
very good to report the human rights organizations and the press agencies about
the Regime's violations. The situation of most detainees who are still behind
bars is very painful. They suffer of pains in the prisons of Reyadh and Dammam.
They are waiting your move and activity.
Those scholars and citizens find the best help in your
sympathy to understand their problems and to convey their voices and cries to
the Muslims ears and the ears of our believed brothers and to the world.
Finally we send our greetings to you and other
believers and we ask you prayers and serious move and don't be concerned about
your brothers because they are firm and patient. They are sticking to their
values and principles despite the difficult circumstances.
Peace and blessings of Allah upon you.
Your brothers who are waiting
Your ardor on religion and believed brothers.