Torture Victims

There are subjects who are being tortured and are not being assisted by their governments because it is an unpopular issue. English subjects are actually warned not to go to risky places where one could be detained and questioned without legal recourse. Such is the case for an Edinburgh man who has survived beatings and is now back home.

An institute in Denmark, which was able to verify the nature of his beatings, testifies that in fact he was beaten on the souls of his feet. His testimony agrees with their findings regarding torture methods inflicted through the Saudi system. He had no recourse there to his embassy or to his government.

It seems quite frightening for any national to be at such risk. Canadians are present in at drilling sites of international oil companies and any of them might be bait for such a maneuver. There are engineers who represent our expertise in the field of oil exploration in the interest of all governments concerned. Then there are other ex-pats who assist locals in obtaining licenses for their host county to trade with western nations. Shouldn’t they be considered worthy of protection should they fall out of favor with their hosting government? It seems to me that a lack of protection is a lack of respect for those and other individuals who leave their mother country, are arrested and then tortured on false grounds while others live more comfortably at home.