Saudi Arabia: Countering terrorism with repression

Saudi Arabia: Countering terrorism with repression

Index Number: MDE 23/025/2009
Date Published: 11 September 2009
Categories: Saudi Arabia

Since the 11 September 2001 attacks in the USA, carried out by a group that included Saudi Arabian nationals, and in the wake of bombings and other attacks inside Saudi Arabia, the Saudi Arabian authorities have imposed a range of counter-terrorism measures that have swept aside embryonic legal reforms and left people in Saudi Arabia almost completely devoid of fundamental freedoms and rights. In this document, which includes case studies, Amnesty International is calling on the Saudi Arabian authorities to stop the endemic abuse of human rights.