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OverviewWhen Sandy Mitchell was arrested for his alleged involvement in two bombings in Saudi Arabia in December 2000, he thought it was a case of mistaken identity and that he would soon be released. Instead, he spent the next two and a half years in jail, where he was repeatedly tortured before being forced to sign a confession and admit his guilt on Saudi television. Throughout his incarceration the Saudi authorities knew that the attacks had been committed by al-Qaeda militants. Yet they kept Mitchell in jail and refused him access to a lawyer for a year. By this time he had been sentenced to death but he was eventually released before the penalty could be imposed. Saudi Babylon is the story of a shocking miscarriage of justice. But it also reveals an even more disturbing truth- how the British government, mindful of Britain s multi-billion-pound arms sales to Saudi Arabia, virtually abandoned Mitchell by adopting a softly-softly diplomatic approach to the corrupt Saudi royal family. Based on diaries and records of meetings with ministers and officials, this is a powerful expose of how the British government acts when one of its own citizens is illegally imprisoned and tortured b Full Product DetailsAuthor: Mark Hollingsworth (Author) , Sandy Mitchell (Author)Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd Imprint: Mainstream Publishing Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 12.90cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 19.80cm Weight: 0.249kg ISBN: 9781845961855ISBN 10: 1845961854 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 02 November 2006 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: In Print  Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock. Table of ContentsReviewsNo one gets off lightly in this account: not the Saudi princes who cream percentages off arms deals; nor the craven Foreign Office; nor religious police who let Saudi schoolgirls burn to death, rather than be rescued, because they are improperly dressed. <br>- Mail on Sunday <br> Hollingsworth powerfully challenges official complacency. <br>- Daily Telegraph Author InformationMark Hollingsworth is an investigative journalist and author of several books, notably Defending the Realm, MPs for Hire and Thatcher's Fortunes. Sandy Mitchell was jailed in Saudi Arabia for his alleged role in a series of bomb attacks that began in 2000. He was granted clemency in 2003. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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