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INSIDE
A SAUDI PRISON
OTHER ACCOUNTS
Peter
Goldsmith and his wife spent six weeks
in a Saudi jail.
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Peter
Goldsmith
and his wife Annie were arrested outside their villa.
"Two cars drove up, six or seven big guys got
out, they grabbed me. two or three of them went
into my villa because the gate was open and a few
minutes later, they dragged my wife out."
"I wasn't sure whether they would release me
at that point because I knew they'd found some alcohol
in my house."
Kelvin
Hawkins spent a year in a Saudi jail.
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Kelvin
Hawkins was arrested after a car bomb went
off outside his bar.
"I was asked to look at photographs to see
if I could identify anybody who'd been hanging around
the bars or who was suspicious. I went to do that
and that was the end of my freedom. There was no
formal arrest, there was no reading of rights. You
were just thrown in a cell."
"They accused me of making the bomb, planting
the bomb and setting the bomb off. They claimed
I had all the chemicals necessary to make the bomb
in my kitchen."
"They threatened other things, violence, attacks
on my wife."
Gary
O'Nions is still in jail.
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Gary
O'Nions is serving eight years in prison.
His wife, Mary recalls his arrest.
"They just came in droves. It looked like a band
of Osama Bin Laden. They knocked his teeth loose,
they fractured his ribs. He was actually terrified
they were going to kill him."
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