Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia is a dictatorship in the Middle East. Its dictator is King Abdullah. It also happens to be one of US's stratergic 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 wortship in private, but this right is not respected. Recntly Mr Abdullah has said that all religions of the world must unite to fight atheism.

Human rights
Saudi Arabia is virtually a Taliban. Women and non Muslims are regarded as second class citizens. Women are thought to be the property of their husbands. Homosexuality is punishable by death.

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 salve 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.