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...Mohammed al-Jadaan, the finance minister, said on Thursday that most of the $100bn Riyadh hopes to raise from corruption suspects will come from assets inside and outside the kingdom....
...Another detainee has told his staff that the authorities may be looking to take ownership of his main business....
...Meanwhile, Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun, an 18-year-old Saudi woman who fled overseas to escape from her family, saying she feared for her life, arrived in Canada on Saturday....
...One prominent detainee, the former economy minister Adel Faqih, was the linchpin of the crown prince’s Vision 2030 transformation plan....
...The sister of Loujain al-Hathloul, one of more than 10 women’s rights advocates arrested last year, has alleged that the detainee was threatened with rape and death....
...Mohammed al-Jadaan, finance minister, has said several billions of dollars have already been recovered. But reaching the state’s target of $100bn will take time as assets are sequestered and sold on....
...At the weekend, the highest profile detainee, Prince Alwaleed, walked out of the Ritz....
...crackdown, which saw hundreds of princes and businessmen detained at Riyadh’s Ritz-Carlton hotel, is winding down, with most suspects, including billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, the highest profile detainee...
...He would be the highest-profile detainee to be released. Most of the detainees have been held at Riyadh’s Ritz-Carlton hotel, which has been turned into a deluxe prison for those rounded up....
...The release of the highest-profile detainee caught in Prince Mohammed’s graft dragnet comes after other top businessmen — including the founder of the Middle East’s largest media company — were freed....
...penalty a detainee must pay....
...The most damning is the leaked “interrogation log” of Detainee 063 (Mohammed al-Qahtani, also still at Guantánamo), a document I relied on seven years ago to trace the way in which torture followed a path...
...He theorised that inducing such a state could encourage a detainee to co-operate and provide information.”...
...At the head of the prisoners is Khaled Sheikh Mohammed, the al-Qaeda operative and self-proclaimed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks....
...“And we will insist that judicial review be available for every detainee.”...
...John Kerry, the new US secretary of state, was due to dine on Monday night in Abu Dhabi with Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, the emirate’s Crown Prince, and his brother Sheikh Abdullah, foreign minister...
...Mohammed Sharif contributed to this report By agreement with the Washington Post...
...The administration has backtracked on its decision to try Khaled Sheikh Mohammed, the self-styled architect of the September 11 attacks, in civilian court in New York....
...Mr Ghailani was the first ex-Guantánamo detainee to be tried in a civilian court....
...The drive has also foundered in the wake of the growing strength of the Yemen-based al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula....
...Five detainees at Guantanamo have been charged before military commissions with participation in the 9/11 plot: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Walid Muhammed Salih Mubarak Bin Attash, Ramzi Bin Al Shibh, Ali Abdul-Aziz...
...the detainee in fear of drowning....
...The memos said interrogators had used the technique “extensively” on Mr Mohammed and Abu Zubaida, another alleged senior al-Qaeda operative....
...The memos allowed interrogators to use “enhanced interrogation techniques” such as sleep deprivation and waterboarding, in which operatives pour water through a cloth covering a detainee’s face to simulate...
...Ms Crawford this month became the first Pentagon official to declare that the US had “tortured” a detainee at Guantánamo, referring to Mohammed al-Qahtani, known as the 20th hijacker after he failed to enter...
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