UK accuses Saudi of torture

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Not for the first time - and maybe not for the last either - Saudi Arabia has been accused of gross violations of hunam rights:

The BBC's Diplomatic Correspondent Barnaby Mason says today:

"The UK Government's annual report on human rights around the world has been especially critical of Saudi Arabia.

British governments have always handled Saudi Arabia with kid gloves, partly because it is such an important market for British arms exports.

You do not hear British diplomats saying, as this report does, that there are credible, specific reports of the use of torture by the Saudi authorities to obtain confessions"

see:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3121324.stm