The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman is busy trying to convince us of the social and economic reforms in Saudi Arabia, although Saudi Arabia is undergoing the most ruthless crackdown on political dissent that the country has experienced in decades. Amongst other vile human rights violations, women’s rights activists who campaign to lift the ban on driving were handed out prison sentences, and between 2009 and 2015 more than 3,000 allegations of torture were formally recorded. The 2014 Terror Law designed to systematically justify torture, suppress all dissent and imprison human rights defenders has a broad definition of terrorist crimes.

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