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14 August, 2019
By SJA Jafri
MELBOURNE/ LONDON/ RIYADH: On specific directions of the regime of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) known as Aal-e-Saud, the security forces, police, prison’s officials and other concerned authorities have been torturing, abusing even raping the ‘Female Human Rights Activists’ in different detention centers, jails, private lockups, government offices and houses while the ‘regimes themselves’ also reached their places and force young female activists and women even children for sex with them and offered to detainees that if they will enjoy and stay one night with them and those accept their offers and obeyed their ordered usually released and the rest of detainees assaulted sexually and as many as forty-two (42) young girls and women have been raped and released during the period of July 2018 to July 2019 and nine (09) other activists were freed after video interviews that neither anyone tortured them nor they faced for sex hence, twenty-three 
(23) female activists including one foreigner have either been murdered during their detention in the same period or released after sex and video interviews and the same practices are still continued in whole KSA as routine traditionally, culturally and habitually; one of female activists who released recently and leaved the country, two other victims and their family members, dozens of sufferers and another female NGO worker told PMI on anonymity conditions while the sources have already been revealed these details (earlier) but the dual verification was being continued.
The victims and the sources have also told PMI that if this report is published, the concerned reporter as well as all involved and concerned workers of the media outlet would definitely be murdered/ beheaded soon after the publication on arrival in KSA or anywhere else later on so, they say, they have faced all these phases but don’t want for others and they requested PMI not to publish these details because they love humanity as well as 
PMI and its workers but in the interest of entire humanity, other human rights activists those are detained in KSA and across the world, to discover the real faces of Aal-e-Saud (which only Pakistani’s Messenger and India’s PMI have already been uncovered almost 54 percent during last thirty years as claimed by KSA’s rulers and over thousands of individuals and organizational experts globally) and all others like them throughout the world, to fulfill its professional and journalistic responsibilities, to maintain the historical record for future and to awake ‘world’ particularly ‘global media’ and especially to open the eyes of ‘world rulers’ and all ‘our opponents’ those always claim that the regimes of KSA are best and perform as Islamic values while neither they are Muslims nor they have any concern with Islam as well and this report challenges that no one can change a single world even a full stop or comma of this report and if he/she/they do so, the PMI will not only award him/her/them one hundred million US dollars but will also accept the punishment as per international prescribed laws in this connection.
We don’ want to present here our more own reports because of anonymity conditions and to save our sources for future but would like to include some details which some credible world media outlets published in this context. According to a report of UK’s daily Express Saudi Arabia interrogators tortured female human rights activists with electric shocks and forced them to kiss each other, Amnesty International fears.
Ten activists detained in the Kingdom since last May were repeatedly tortured and sexually abused by Saudi authorities, according to reports received by Amnesty. One human-rights activist who has been arrested in Saudia Arabia is Loujain al-Hathloul, a friend of Meghan Markle, with the pair meeting through the Duchess of Sussex’s charity work before she married Prince Harry. Ms al-Hathloul was arrested over her human rights work last year, but it is not known if she among the detainees who were allegedly tortured.
Waterboarding and electric shocks were used to torture activists, it is claimed.
One activist said interrogators forced water into her mouth as she was shouting while being tortured with two claiming they were forced to kiss.
Another woman was allegedly lied to by an interrogator that her family members had died and allowed to be believe it for a month.
Lynn Maalouf, Amnesty International’s Middle East research director, said: ”We are extremely concerned about the wellbeing of these activists, who have been in arbitrary detention for around nine months simply for standing up for human rights.
“The Saudi Arabian authorities have repeatedly proven themselves unwilling to effectively protect detainees from torture, or to carry out impartial investigations into claims of torture in custody.
“That is why we are calling on Saudi Arabia to give independent monitoring bodies immediate and unfettered access to the detained activists.”
The group reported being sexually abused in the first three months of their arrest at a jail in an unknown location.
In the most recent controversy involving the Kingdom, Amnesty is calling on the UK government to speak out about the detained women’s plight.
Activists held in the May 2018 crackdown are behind bars without being charged or without legal representation.
In November, it was claimed women had been repeatedly tortured and flogged by Saudi officials with some left unable to stand.
Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Media dismissed Amnesty’s claims as “baseless”.
One activist, Nassima al-Sada was arrested in June last year as Saudi authorities launched a crackdown against activists.
Saudi civil rights and human rights activists as well as academics are also among who have been detained.
The allegations come just three months after Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman was accused of dispatching a death squad to assassinate Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
The Crown Prince was accused of ordering the murder of Washington Post reporter Mr Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
Saudi officials have repeatedly denied Bin Salman was involved in the killing and said 18 people had been arrested.
According to Al-Jazeera a prominent Saudi woman’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul has rejected a proposal to secure her release from prison in exchange for a video statement denying she was tortured in custody, her family has said.
“The Saudi state security has visited my sister in prison recently. They have asked her to … appear on video to deny the torture and harassment,” her brother Walid al-Hathloul said on Tweeter on Tuesday. “That was part of a deal to release her.”
There was no immediate reaction from Saudi authorities.
Hathloul, who recently marked her 30th birthday in jail, is among around a dozen prominent female activists who are currently facing trial after being detained last year, just as Saudi Arabia ended a ban on women driving cars, for which many of the detainees had long campaigned.
Al-Hathloul was among a few detainees who accused interrogators of torture and sexual harassment, a charge vehemently denied by the government.
Her brother said on Twitter she had initially agreed to sign a document denying that she had been tortured, as a precondition for her release
He added that her family had intended to keep the deal secret. But state security officials recently visited her again in prison to demand a video testimony.
“Asking to appear on a video and to deny the torture doesn’t sound like a realistic demand,” Walid tweeted.
“When the state security asked her to sign the document for the video release, she immediately ripped the document. She told them by asking me to sign this document you are involved in the cover-up and you’re simply trying [to] defend Saud Al-Qahtani who was overseeing the torture,” he wrote.
Al-Hathloul’s siblings allege that al-Qahtani, a senior adviser to Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salamn who has also been implicated in the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, was present during some of the torture sessions and threatened to rape and kill her.
The Saudi public prosecutor has said his office investigated the allegations and concluded they were false.
Meanwhile, the activist’s sister, Lina al-Hathloul, separately said her sibling was under pressure to deny the torture claim. “Loujain has been proposed a deal: deny the torture and she’ll be free,” Lina wrote on Twitter.
“Whatever happens I am certifying it [one] more time: Loujain has been brutally tortured and sexually harassed.”
Some of the charges against the women on trial fall under the kingdom’s cybercrime law stipulating jail sentences of up to five years, according to rights groups.
Those against Hathloul include communicating with 15 to 20 foreign journalists in Saudi Arabia, attempting to apply for a job at the United Nations, and attending digital privacy training, her brother has said.
Scores of other activists, intellectuals and Muslim leaders have been arrested separately in the past two years in an apparent bid to stamp out possible opposition.
Some of the detained women appeared in court earlier this year to face charges related to human rights work and contacts with foreign journalists and diplomats, but the trial has not convened in months.
Al-Hathloul and some of the other women described in the closed court session in March the mistreatment they had experienced, sources familiar with the matter said at the time.
Their cases have drawn global criticism and provoked anger in European capitals and the US Congress following last year’s murder of Khashoggi by Saudi agents inside the kingdom’s Istanbul consulate.
Rights groups say at least three of the women, including Hathloul, were held in solitary confinement for months and subjected to abuse including electric shocks, flogging, and sexual assault.
Saudi officials have denied torture allegations and said the arrests were made on suspicion of harming Saudi interests and offering support to hostile elements abroad.
