Saudi prisoner told Canadian officials about torture

[dArKeR]

A Canadian who spent 31 months in a Saudi Arabian prison repeatedly told Canadian officials that he was being tortured, according to documents obtained by the CBC.

Reports that William Sampson, who was released on Friday, had been tortured were treated only as allegations by the Canadian government, which said it had received assurances from the Saudi government that international law governing the treatment of prisoners was being observed.

And Foreign Affairs Minister Bill Graham said as recently as last Friday that the conditions of Mr. Sampson's imprisonment were not known, but that the issue was a concern.

But documents obtained by CBC-TV's The Fifth Estate highlight three occasions on which Mr. Sampson told visiting Canadian officials that he had been abused by his captors.

http://theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030812.wsamp0812_2/BNStory/National/

It's sad that this make big news for one Canadian but it's being done to thousands of Muslims in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq but no one seems to care about them.

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[rooboy]

1. True but...

the Saudis do it to almost everyone. They seem to act with complete impunity thanks to people like the Bush family.

[Kolesar]

2. I heard Sampson's father on CBC this morning--it was heartbreaking

They tortured him almost daily and caused two heart attacks.

Here is more on the story, a timeline and many articles: http://www.cbc.ca/news/features/sampson_william.html