Outrage over torture of activist in Saudi jails
SANAA, March 2 (YPA) – Saudi sources revealed that a human rights activist Eman al-Nafjan has been tortured by Saudi security forces.
According to sources, activist Eman al-Nafjan was thrown into a solitary confinement cell for three consecutive months in Dhahban prison, stripped naked, and photographed completely nude.
The account of @hw_saudiwomen indicated that one of the jailers has kicked and sexually harassed her.
حساب "سعوديات معتقلات" يؤكد أنّ جلسات تعذيب الحقوقية المعتقلة #ايمان_النفجان تمت بإشراف وتوصية مباشرة من المستشار بالديوان الملكي سعود القحطاني.#تعذيب_ايمان_النفجان https://t.co/ZvsfR5wrxe
— سعوديات معتقلات (@hw_saudiwomen) March 1, 2019
According to the account, the former advisor to the Royal Court, Saud al-Qahtani, one of the perpetrators of the murder of writer Jamal Khashoggi, personally attended one of the torture sessions of Nafjan.
#تعذيب_ايمان_النفجان :
– صوّروها وهي عارية بشكل كامل
– وضعوا صورتها وهي عارية أمامها خلال جلسات التحقيق
– تحرّشوا بها جنسيا بشكل بشع
– لمسوا أجزاء حسّاسة من جسمها
– وضعوها في العزل الإنفرادي مدة 3 أشهر
– قاموا بجلدها وصعقها بالكهرباء
– منعوا أفراد عائلتها من السفرحسبنا الله.. pic.twitter.com/dVRHIlNwdh
— تركي الشلهوب (@TurkiShalhoub) March 1, 2019
The account added that investigators gave her two options: either to get life imprisonment or be executed, after accusing her of spying for Qatar.
Saudi activists expressed strong indignation at the torture of the Nafjan, saying that the Saudi authorities “did not learn from the lesson of Khashoggi and Lugain Hathloul “.
Saudi activists said that the state tried to cover up the torture of Iman Nafjan, which is the most interactive hashtag on Saudi social media at the moment, by creating fake news about the so-called “torture of Iman al-Nafjan”, a fictional name they had made up. Saudi Arabia then tried to pretend that footage of Nafjan’s torture took place in a Qatari jail and featured the abuse of al-Nafjan.
Activists explained that the revelation of the torture of the Nafjan was their response to a statement by the Saudi public prosecutor, who had denied that there had been any ill-treatment of detainees in Saudi prison.
E.M