When I hear Saudi Arabia I always remember William Sampson, a Canadian citizen who was arrested while working in SA and tortured so badly he lost his mind for a time. Needless to say he confessed to everything countless times.
PS : I don't mean to start a flamewar or offend anyone. But just how is this any different than ISIS capturing western journalists and doing all the unspeakable horrible things to those caught in their system.
That's not very surprising considering the Canadian government recently paid 10M dollars to an enemy combatant and terrorist who murdered and wounded several US Soldiers [0]. And of course, received full apologies from Trudeau.
[0] https://www.foxnews.com/us/us-veteran-blinded-in-omar-khadr-...
Khadr was an enemy combatant in an invasion of his country, abducted illegally when he was a child (15 year old), taken to Guantanamo, probably tortured, and sued for murder ( since when does Guantanamo have jurisdiction over killing between armed men in a war in Afghanistan??).
You really have to have a very fucked up view of the world to think illegally detaining and torturing a child is OK, whatever the circumstances. Where are the trials for the US war criminals in Afghanistan ? Why are their war crimes acceptable, but fucking children get sent to Guantanamo for fighting?!
b) While it is technically true, I assume the prevalence is orders of magnitude smaller. Still, cases like Abu Zubaydah are extremely disturbing.