# Saudi Babylon

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- Authors: [Sandy Mitchell](https://www.bookquiver.com/sandy-mitchell), [Mark Hollingsworth](https://www.bookquiver.com/mark-hollingsworth)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2012-08-17

## Description

When 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 nearly three 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 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 exposé of how the British government acts when one of its citizens is illegally imprisoned and tortured by a regime with which it does business.

## Editions

### Saudi Babylon

- Publisher: mainstream_digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-17-8057-732-6
- Published: 2012-08-17
- Language: en_GB