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Guy Whitey Corngood

(26,501 posts) Fri Dec 7, 2018, 02:06 PM Dec 2018

Aide to Mohammed bin Salman 'supervised torture of female prisoner'

Source: Reuters

A top aide to Saudi Arabia's crown prince, fired for his role in the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, personally oversaw the torture of at least one detained female activist earlier this year, two sources with knowledge of the matter said.

Saud al-Qahtani was a royal adviser to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman until October, when he was sacked and then sanctioned by the US Treasury over the Washington Post columnist's murder.

Now three sources, briefed on the activists' treatment, say a group of men subjected this woman and at least three others to sexual harassment, electrocution and flogging between May and August at an unofficial holding facility in Jeddah.

They described the group of about six men as distinct from the regular interrogators the women saw and said they belonged to the Saudi Federation for Cybersecurity, Programming and Drones, which Mr Qahtani headed at the time, or to state security.

Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/aide-mohammed-bin-salman-apos-115624437.html

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Aide to Mohammed bin Salman 'supervised torture of female prisoner' (Original Post) Guy Whitey Corngood Dec 2018 OP

Great friends you have, Donald. nt leftyladyfrommo Dec 2018 #1

But it's racist to accuse other countries of treating women poorly nt MadDAsHell Dec 2018 #2

What specifically leads you to allege that? LanternWaste Dec 2018 #11

These can't be our friends doing this, right? Iggo Dec 2018 #3

Hey isn't that sick fuck trump's good 'ol orb buddy? Blue Owl Dec 2018 #4

"MAYBE HE DID, AND MAYBE HE DIDN'T!!" bullwinkle428 Dec 2018 #5

This might end well for the Saudis. byronius Dec 2018 #6

The republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief is intimate with some totally skanky suckers Achilleaze Dec 2018 #7

Be Best! MontanaMama Dec 2018 #8

Let's get Gina Haspel on the case... torius Dec 2018 #9

I shudder to think what those women endured. Haggis for Breakfast Dec 2018 #10

-- most of whom had agitated for the right to drive and an end to a male guardianship system -- riversedge Dec 2018 #12

leftyladyfrommo

(18,868 posts)

1. Great friends you have, Donald. nt

Reply to Guy Whitey Corngood (Original post)

Fri Dec 7, 2018, 02:20 PM

Dec 2018

MadDAsHell

(2,067 posts)

2. But it's racist to accuse other countries of treating women poorly nt

Reply to Guy Whitey Corngood (Original post)

Fri Dec 7, 2018, 02:20 PM

Dec 2018

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)

11. What specifically leads you to allege that?

Reply to MadDAsHell (Reply #2)

Sat Dec 8, 2018, 06:27 PM

Dec 2018

Or is this simply another "well... that's MY own experience."

Iggo

(47,552 posts)

3. These can't be our friends doing this, right?

Reply to Guy Whitey Corngood (Original post)

Fri Dec 7, 2018, 02:27 PM

Dec 2018

Blue Owl

(50,374 posts)

4. Hey isn't that sick fuck trump's good 'ol orb buddy?

Reply to Guy Whitey Corngood (Original post)

Fri Dec 7, 2018, 02:31 PM

Dec 2018

n/t

bullwinkle428

(20,629 posts)

5. "MAYBE HE DID, AND MAYBE HE DIDN'T!!"

Reply to Guy Whitey Corngood (Original post)

Fri Dec 7, 2018, 02:32 PM

Dec 2018

byronius

(7,394 posts)

6. This might end well for the Saudis.

Reply to Guy Whitey Corngood (Original post)

Fri Dec 7, 2018, 02:35 PM

Dec 2018

The royal family needs to go. And international isolation and pariah-dom lies down the road for them as well as the devaluing of the only asset they possess, as long as Trump is overthrown and the US recovers its senses.

The oil money is keeping them in the thirteenth century. I'd like to see us help the Saudi people by advancing beyond fossil fuels and freezing their international assets for being a terrorist state and for their participation in the rise of Trump.

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)

7. The republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief is intimate with some totally skanky suckers

Reply to Guy Whitey Corngood (Original post)

Fri Dec 7, 2018, 02:37 PM

Dec 2018

freaking republicans and their degenerate values

MontanaMama

(23,314 posts)

8. Be Best!

Reply to Guy Whitey Corngood (Original post)

Fri Dec 7, 2018, 03:02 PM

Dec 2018

torius

(1,652 posts)

9. Let's get Gina Haspel on the case...

Reply to Guy Whitey Corngood (Original post)

Fri Dec 7, 2018, 05:48 PM

Dec 2018

oh, wait...

Haggis for Breakfast

(6,831 posts)

10. I shudder to think what those women endured.

Reply to Guy Whitey Corngood (Original post)

Fri Dec 7, 2018, 11:32 PM

Dec 2018

They must have been terrified beyond imagination.

And as we have seen so often in the past, religious zealots rarely act saintly when in positions of control over women.

riversedge

(70,220 posts)

12. -- most of whom had agitated for the right to drive and an end to a male guardianship system --

Reply to Guy Whitey Corngood (Original post)

Sun Dec 9, 2018, 07:30 AM

Dec 2018

....Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said last month at least three of the activists -- most of whom had agitated for the right to drive and an end to a male guardianship system -- were tortured. They did not report Mr Qahtani's involvement.

The sources, who asked not to be identified for fear of reprisals, told Reuters that Mr Qahtani was in the room on several occasions when one of the four detained activists was subjected to kissing, groping and electrocution. He made threats of rape and murder to the woman, the sources said.

At least two other detainees endured sexual insults, flogging and electric shocks that turned one of the women's fingers blue, the sources said. Captors also made another woman kiss a male detainee while they watched, one of the sources said.

Reuters could not determine whether Mr Qahtani was in the room during the episodes with those three other detainees, but the sources said all of the women's tormentors were from "Saud's group".

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