Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia is a Kingdom (dictatorship) in the Middle East. Its King (dictator) is King Abdullah. It also happens to be one of US's strategic partners.

Religion
Saudi Arabia's state religion is Islam and no other religion is tolerated as such. Saudi Arabia's king Abdullah says that he respects rights of other religions to worship in private, but this right is not respected, although the Saudi Arabian government has a "dhimmi" system, which provides protection and privileges for non-Muslims but results in the treatment of them as second-class citizens. Recently Mr Abdullah has said that all religions of the world must unite to fight atheism.

Human rights
Saudi Arabia is statistically and rather blatantly worse than the Taliban. Women and non Muslims are regarded as second class citizens. Women are thought to be the property of their husbands, and are not allowed out on their own, or allowed to walk alongside their male companions. Women have to walk six feet behind their accompanying male at all times in public. Homosexuality is punishable by death. So-called 'adultery' (though this is often a scapegoat for prosecutors that have no real case) is punishable by whipping or stoning (not the good kind of stoning).

Human trafficking
Human trafficking is a big problem in Saudi Arabia. Thousands of children, men and women live as slaves in Saudi Arabia. Often foreign workers especially women are subjected to sexual abuse and rape. A Saudi who kept an Indonesian women as slave and used to rape her was allowed to go free from United States. There have been reports of European and American women kidnapped to kept as sex slaves as Saudi Arabia.