Saudi Babylon: Torture, Corruption and Cover-up Inside the House of Saud Book

An exposé of the British government?s failure to act when one of its citizens was illegally imprisoned and tortured by a corrupt regime.

When Sandy Mitchell was arrested for his alleged involvement in two bombings in Saudi Arabia in December 2000, he assumed it was a case of mistaken identity and that he would soon be released. Instead, he spent the next 18 months in jail, where he was repeatedly tortured, before being forced to sign a confession. Mitchell was an innocent man?and the Saudi privately knew the attacks were the work of al-Qaeda militants. In July 2002, Mitchell was sentenced to death?then suddenly released. This is the story of a shocking miscarriage of justice. It also suggests a more disturbing truth: that Tony Blair and the Foreign Office?mindful of Britain?s massive arms sales to Saudi Arabia?abandoned Mitchell by adopting a soft diplomatic approach to the corrupt Saudi Royal Family.