Saudi torturers rape Mujahideen during interrogation
12-02-2008
This is an
old report, nevertheless as it has yet not stopped and as many of our Muslims
are in Jail there and as to spread such news of these animalistic behaviour of
the tughāt and their allies this is being published:
Saudi
torturers rape Mujahideen during interrogation
READ THIS REPORT AND FIND OUT
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If you do not hear from us for some time, then that is not because nothing is
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tell. The following news article should be read from beginning to end for
maximum effect. This and previous news articles may be found on our web site.
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As this
news bulletin goes to press, there are still currently over 2000 Mujahideen that
have been imprisoned in Saudi Arabia during the latest oppression that began a
few days before Hajj, 1998. Azzam Publications has managed to conduct another
exclusive interview with one brother who spent some time in a Saudi prison
within the last few months. He was arrested when he returned from a land of
Jihad, and released after one year, when no evidence of criminal activity was
found on him. Azzam Publications is still in contact with this brother and able
to answer any questions relating to it.
We would like to say that what you are about to read is not a fabricated or
second-hand account. This account was taken DIRECTLY from the mouth of the
brother who underwent this torture and spoke to his brother inmates. After our
last report titled: ‘Torture in Saudi Prisons: Exclusive Report’, some defenders
of the Saudi regime stated that they did not deny the report, but that it must
have been exaggerated. This is a stance similar to the disbelievers at the time
of the Prophet (SAWS), who said to him: “We do not say that you are a liar, but
we say that what you have brought is false.” Defenders of the Saudi regime will
nonetheless continue to make further excuses after this second torture report
and say that this is a made-up story or that it is lies. In this case:
AZZAM PUBLICATIONS PUBLICLY CHALLENGES
SUCH PEOPLE, UNDER THE WITNESS OF ALLAH (SWT) TO SWEAR TO ALLAH THAT THEY
BELIEVE THAT THIS IS A FABRICATED ACCOUNT, THAT THIS ACCOUNT HAS BEEN
EXAGGERATED, THAT THIS DID NOT HAPPEN IN A SAUDI PRISON AND THAT THE PRISON
OFFICERS NAMED BELOW DO NOT WORK FOR THE SAUDI INTELLIGENCE SERVICES, INVOKING
THE ETERNAL CURSE OF ALLAH (SWT) UPON THEMSELVES IF THIS ACCOUNT IS TRUE.
We say that, IF, AFTER READING THIS ACCOUNT, ANY MUSLIM STILL HAS DOUBT IN HIS
HEART AS TO WHETHER OR NOT THE SAUDI GOVERNMENT IS AN AMERICAN BACKED GOVERNMENT
AND AN ENEMY TO MUSLIMS ALL OVER THE WORLD, THEN THEY MUST SIT DOWN AND CHECK
THEIR IMAN BECAUSE MAYBE THEN THERE IS SOME DEFICIENCY IN THEIR IMAN AND THEIR
CLAIM IN BEING A MUSLIM.
THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF TORTURE THAT IS STILL BEING CARRIED OUT IN THE PRISONS OF
A COUNTRY THAT CLAIMS TO BE AN ISLAMIC SALAFI GOVERNMENT WHOSE LEADER IS DUBBED
AS THE AMEER-UL-MUMINEEN (CHIEF OF THE BELIEVERS) .
EYE-WITNESS ACCOUNT OF TORTURE IN SAUDI PRISON. YOU MAY FIND SOME PARTS
DISTURBING, BUT WE HAVE INCLUDED EVERYTHING BECAUSE IT IS THE TRUTH AND ALLAH IS
WITNESS TO THAT.
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In the Name of ALLAH, the Most Merciful, the Most Kind
Sometime after I returned from a land of Jihad, soon after the Hajj season, I
was asked to report at the headquarters of the Saudi Interior Ministry in my
city. I was told that I was needed for questioning for a period not exceeding
two weeks. I was then taken to the famous Ar-Ruwais Interrogation Centre in
Ar-Ruwais District, Jeddah. Unlike the Al-Hair maximum security prison in
Riyadh, where Dr. Sheikh Salman Al-Owdah and Dr. Sheikh Safar Al-Hawali have
been in detention since September 1994 (over four years now), Ar-Ruwais
Interrogation is not publicly known by international human rights organisations
such as Amnesty International and Red Cross. The Saudi Government continues to
deny the existence of such a place. Ar-Ruwais Interrogation Centre is also the
place where Sheikh Abu Abdul-Azeez, the initiator of the Jihad in Bosnia was
held for fifteen months (he has since been released but is banned from leaving
the country) and Abu Abdur-Rahman Al-Sarehi, the mastermind of the famous Lion’s
Den Operation against the Soviet Army in Jaaje, Afghanistan, 1987: undoubtedly
the most brilliant operation conducted by the foreign Mujahideen against the
Soviets in the ten year Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, is still being held.
When I arrived at the prison, I was placed in a large room with about ten other
brothers. I was placed in such a room because all the solitary confinement cells
were full. I saw at least five corridors of cells, each corridor housing about
75 brothers, totalling over 350 brothers. This was only in my section: there are
other sections to the Centre. I knew just over half of these 350 brothers, as I
met them in various lands of Jihad. There was also one corridor specifically for
women, where mothers, sisters, daughters and wives of brothers were housed. It
is important to note that there are NO common criminals in Ar-Ruwais. Ar-Ruwais
is a special, secret interrogation centre/ prison, specifically for ‘political
prisoners’. Prince Naif, the Saudi Interior Minister, continues to deny the
existence of political prisoners in Saudi Arabia.
I spent the first three days in this communal cell, with no problems. After that
my name was called from a list and I was asked to follow the guards. They took
me to a special room, containing many unusual objects: this was one of the many
torture chambers in the prison. I was joined by two individuals: one guard and
one interrogator. When I said ‘Assalamu-alaikum’ to him, he swore at me and then
he came and began to play with my beard, making fun of it. He was clean-shaven
of course.
This interrogator spoke to me for about one hour, during which he said the
following points to me:
“We are stronger and more powerful than you. You are not Mujahideen, you are
homosexuals, you are dogs, you are women.”
“All your affairs are in my hands. If I want, I can kill you, I can order the
guard to rape you and no-one has power to stop me if I want to do this.”
“You came here because you did such-and-such crime and said such-and-such
thing.” even though he had no evidence for any accusation.
After this first hour, he left and another interrogator entered the room. He was
larger and stronger than the first interrogator. He had a large beard, a garment
that was above his ankles and clear marks of prolonged prostration on his
forehead. He handcuffed me and began to ask me some questions. For the next two
hours, he continued to ask me the same question, whilst the soldier continued to
beat me on the soles of my feet with a baton:
“Do you believe that King Fahd is a kafir and that the Saudi Government is a
government based on kufr?”
By the end of these two hours, my feet were bleeding and had swollen to twice
their size. My toenails had come off.
They asked this question to all the brothers, so that once the brothers sign the
paper stating that they believe this, they will pass a fatwa (religious edict)
on them, stating that they are khawaarij (dissidents), who can lawfully be
killed. During these four hours, they said and did the following things to me.
“In Islam, whatever is necessary to establish an obligation, then that thing
itself becomes an obligation. It is an obligation upon us to protect this
country, so it is permissible (Halal) for us to commit homosexual acts upon you
in order to protect this country. We can rape you now and kill you now. We are
authorised to do so.” He then laughed and mentioned the verse in the Quran, (Surah
Ta-Ha (20), Verse 55) jokingly: ‘From it we created you, and into it we will
return you &’ citing his evidence for raping me. It was at that moment that I
vowed to myself that if ever I saw this man outside the prison, I would kill him
and not fear the consequences.
The interrogator then proceeded to read out a list of crimes that I was supposed
to have committed. The soldier continued to beat me to force me to confess to
these crimes, until I shouted to the interrogator:
“BY ALLAH, I did not do those things!”
The interrogator then said to me,
“Allah, leave Him to the side. This is between me and you: it has nothing to do
with Allah.“
He then threatened to rape me and tried to remove my trousers, but I resisted.
Some brothers in the prison were stripped naked. Others saw the interrogator
order the soldier to remove his trousers and underwear as a means of threatening
them. At least one brother I know was actually raped. Other brothers refuse to
speak about this topic, due to their shame and honour, but there were other
brothers who were raped as well.
During the interrogation sessions, the interrogator continued to beat me with a
baton and a whip, on my face, hands and spine. My body turned black and red due
to the beating. Six months on, I still have pains in my spine due to this
beating. They swore at me and cursed my mother.
At other times, I was ordered to stand for hours on end and the soldiers would
beat me if I tried to sit down. I know one Algerian brother who was forced to
stand for three months. He was beaten on the soles of his feet and blood was
dripping from them. They removed his clothes and inserted a baton into his
rectum.
Another brother had his beard plucked hair by hair until there was not a single
hair left on his face. Other brothers had pins and other sharp objects inserted
into their private parts. I saw many brothers with signs of electric torture on
their bodies.
Ar-Ruwais Centre uses three types of electric torture. One is a hand-held stun
gun, another is the size of a car battery and the third is a huge, sophisticated
machine, which was known to the interrogators as ‘Cinderella’. Cinderella is a
unit into which the entire body of the victim is inserted. His arms, legs and
waist are tied down with strong straps, whilst electric current is applied to
him. It is electronically controlled and fully computerised. Some brothers have
suffered permanent brain damage as a result of torture in this machine. [Note by
Azzam Publications: it is important to point out that no Muslim country has the
technology to produce such a sophisticated machine. A British company in Selly
Oak, Birmingham, UK, is famous for its custom-made 20ft and 40ft fully-equipped
torture chambers, which are sold to Muslim countries. This point was also
debated in Parliament by some British MP’s.]
I met Abu Abdur-Rahmān As-Sarehi (real name Hassan As-Sarehi) in Ar-Ruwais. As-Sarehi
was one of the most brilliant Mujahideen commanders in the Afghan Jihad. In
Jaaje, 1987, the Mujahideen mounted a daring and spectacular attack against a
powerful Soviet offensive involving Land and Air power. It was one of the most
famous battles during the whole war and, due to the high risk encountered, it
was known as the Lion’s Den Operation of Afghanistan. Many notable Mujahideen
personalities participated in this operation, such as Usama bin Ladin, Abu
Zubair Al-Madani and Sheikh Tameem Adnani amongst many others. Sheikh Abdullah
Azzam was in the second line of the Front. The mastermind and commander of this
operation was Abu Abdur-Rahman As-Sarehi. As-Sarehi was the teacher of
Ibn-ul-Khattab (the Ameer of the Foreign Mujahideen in Chechnya) and taught
Ibn-ul-Khattab much of what he knew, from the time he came to Afghanistan as a
young teenager, until he left for Tajikistan, as a brilliant commander.
After the explosion of the US Army base in Riyadh, the Saudi Government
requested the Pakistani Government to extradite As-Sarehi, as he was living in
Peshawar at the time. They accused As-Sarehi of involvement in this explosion,
though without a shred of evidence. The Pakistani Government agreed to hand over
As-Sarehi to the Saudi Government in return for two of the topmost Pakistani
drug smugglers imprisoned in Saudi Arabia and awaiting execution. After four
brothers were executed in Saudi Arabia for allegedly plotting the Riyadh
explosion, the Saudi Government should have released Hassan As-Sarehi, but they
continued to detain him. He has now been in prison for over three years and the
following things have been done to him:
His neck was stretched away from his body so that it is permanently disabled. He
can no longer turn his neck from side to side. He has been stripped naked and
made to stand for weeks on end. He was subjected to electric torture from all
the three types of electric torture equipment, including ‘Cinderella’. He has
been denied visits from his family. His body has become very weak now and his
face is disfigured, like someone who has undergone severe physical and mental
torture.
In the midst of all this torture, As-Sarehi told his interrogators: “Bring me a
sheet of paper and I will sign it confessing to every single crime that you
accuse me of. I killed President Kennedy, I killed King Faisal, I carried out
the Riyadh and Al-Khobar Explosions, anything you want.” His interrogators
replied that that was not good enough; they wanted to know how he done it. He
replied to them “I am telling you, I did not do these crimes, so how can I tell
you how I did them?”
I saw another brother in prison, Abu Asim Al-Makki (Muhammad Hamdi Al-Ahdal),
who was famous for his heroic feats in the famous Battle for Tishin, Bosnia, in
1992. In this operation, he lost one leg and has been paralysed in one arm ever
since. Abu Asim, who is already disabled, was beaten with shoes on his face. The
interrogators beat him with baton on his disabled limbs and spat in his face.
His face also looks like he has undergone severe physical and mental torture.
Another brother famous for heroic feats in Afghanistan, Abu Ishaq Al-Makki was
in Yemen. Prince Naif (the Saudi Interior Minister) travelled to Yemen and took
this brother back in his own plane. He has been tortured severely in prison,
stripped naked and beaten.
One night whilst I was in prison, and the conditions were extremely tough upon
the brothers, I met one of the brothers who saw a dream before Salat-ul-Fajr one
night. He saw the Messenger of Allah (SAWS) and the Messenger (SAWS) said to
him: “Inform the brothers on my behalf, that the angels are competing amongst
themselves in writing down their rewards.” This dream of the brother brought
some relief and encouragement to the rest of the brothers. However, we did not
say who had this dream, else that brother would be tortured for having the dream
in the first place.
In Ar-Ruwais, we were not allowed to supplicate to Allah (make dua) with our
hands outstretched. Perhaps the interrogators knew in the bottom of their hearts
the hadith of the Prophet (SAWS) that “there is no veil between Allah and the
supplication of the oppressed one.” We had to urinate in one litre bottles
infront of the other brothers and attend to other needs in public as well.
The interrogators constantly swore at and abused those working for Islam,
amongst the scholars, Mujahideen and callers to Islam. They said that Sheikhs
Salman Al-Owdah and Safar Al-Hawali (in Al-Hair Prison, Riyadh, since September
1994) were khawaarij (dissidents) and kafirs (disbelievers).
There was one separate wing of Ar-Ruwais just for women. Here, they would keep
the wives, daughters, mothers and sisters of the brothers. They brought the
wives of one of the brothers and threatened to rape her unless the brother
confessed to the crimes that they were accusing him of. The brother duly signed
anything they asked him to. One brother escaped the country before he was
arrested, so the Saudi Interior Ministry imprisoned seven women members of his
family, for eight months, as a ploy to ask the brother to return. It was common
for them to strip brothers naked and make fun of their privates. All this is
from the country that calls itself Balad-ut-Tawheed (The Land of Tawheed) and
whose ruler calls himself Khadim-ul-Haramain Ash-Sharifain (The Custodian of the
Two Holy Mosques).
The names of some of the torturers at Ar-Ruwais are:
Adnan Filimblaan (he was the worst)
Talib Ad-Dhabbaagh
Al-Qusayfaan (I cannot remember his first name)
Ghazi Al-Judaibi
Al-Zagzoug (he was the Head of Ar-Ruwais Prison, who is known to grovel to the
Interior Minister, Prince Naif)
As a finishing point, the former Egyptian Interior Minister, Zaki Badar, was
sacked from his post because he was too harsh and inhumane in this torture
methods, and many people died under his custody. The Saudi Interior Ministry
duly hired him and he helped to organise the various torture methods on the
brothers. He was Prince Naif’s personal advisor on how to deal with Islamists.
Praise be to Allah that he died whilst on a recent visit to the USA.
Since being released, all the brothers have had their passports confiscated so
that they cannot travel abroad. Furthermore, some brothers still suffer from
permanent injuries inflicted on them in Ar-Ruwais. We ask Allah to release our
brothers still inside: Hassan As-Sarehi, Muhammad Hamdi Al-Ahdal (Abu Asim Al-Makki),
Abu Ishaq Al-Makki, Abu Shaheed Ash-Sharqi and others. Praise be to Allah, this
only makes us stronger, as Allah says in the Quran:
“Do you really think that you will enter Paradise, until Allah has decided from
amongst you, those that make Jihad and those who are patient?” [Quran 3:142]
A Mujahid Brother
Azzam Publications
BCM Uhud
London WC1N 3XX
United Kingdom
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“And with the likes of all these (the martyrs), nations are established,
convictions are brought to life, and ideologies are made victorious.”
Shaheed Sheikh Dr. Abdullah Azzam (رحمه الله)
Submitted by a Mujahid