Head of Advocacy, Media & Communications for the Middle East & North Africa at Norwegian Refugee Council. Formerly Amnesty International Middle East & Oxfam.
Nov 20, 2018 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Several Saudi Arabian activists, including women, who have been arbitrarily detained without charge since May 2018 in Saudi Arabia’s Dhahban Prison, have reportedly faced sexual harassment, torture and other forms of ill-treatment amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
According to three separate testimonies obtained by Amnesty, detained activists were repeatedly tortured by electrocution and flogging, leaving some unable to walk or stand properly. In one reported instance, one of the activists was made to hang from the ceiling #SaudiArabia