{"product_id":"9781780577326","title":"Saudi Babylon: Torture, Corruption and Cover-Up Inside the House of Saud","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSaudi Babylon\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mainstream Publishing Company, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47300729307376,"sku":"9781780577326","price":12.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781780577326_p0.jpg?v=1763714235","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781780577326","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}