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Let the Show Trials Begin!

Whether guilty or not. An interesting method os state control.

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Three British men have been shown confessing on Saudi TV to three bombings between December last year and March this year.
The film showed the men giving details of the attacks - two in the capital, Riyadh, and a third in the eastern city of Khobar.

The blasts left two British men and one Egyptian injured. Under Sharia law, the suspects could face execution, usually by beheading in Saudi Arabia, if convicted.

The UK Foreign Office named the men as Les Walker, Jamie Patrick Lee and James Cottle. Their appearance follows similar statements on Saudi TV in February by three other expatriates regarding separate bombings in Saudi Arabia.
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sp00ky
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There's nothing nice in my head. The adult world took it all away. Wake up with same spit in my mouth. Cannot tell if it is real or not. I try and walk in a straight line. An imitation of dignity. From despair to where.

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As a side note. According to Saudi Dissidets in London, part of the Democratic Reform for Saudi Group believe that the show trials are being used as abargaining tool. That is that they will give pardons to men in return for the extradition of the dissidents.

It has alwasy amused me the way the UK and the US appeases the Saudi Kingdom and its human rights abuses, and yet it demonises Iran which is a democratic nation in which woman are not as mistreated as the propaganda would have people believe.

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sp00ky
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There's nothing nice in my head. The adult world took it all away. Wake up with same spit in my mouth. Cannot tell if it is real or not. I try and walk in a straight line. An imitation of dignity. From despair to where.

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Sidenote: The *****'s (stars) turn me right off.

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