Amnesty International researchers have found Saudi Arabia has the highest human rights record in the world.
According to the researchers Saudi Arabia is free of slaves, free of torture, free from arbitrary arrests and from arbitrary interference with privacy and family.
For decades, Amnesty International alleged Saudi Arabia that it is a country with judicial corporal punishment such as amputation of hands for robbery, stoning, beheading, flogging for treason, adultery, drunkenness, sorcery, blasphemy and the list goes on.
But an Amnesty International investigation has found the allegations may have been not true at all.
Public leashing, stoning and other physical punishment on convicts executed each Friday in public places in Riyadh are just shows organized by Saudi's entertainment industry.
The Saudi Arabian government does not allow its people to listen to music, to watch TV or to do other recreational activities therefore these shows are a very important part of entertainment.
The convicts are not criminals but performers hired by the entertainment industry. For example, Omar Hariri (28) hired by "It's!Stoning Time" residing in Riyadh is a professional stoning artist. "Each Friday I am tied to a bar from 5am to 10am and visitors are allowed to stone me for 50 Riyals for 10 minutes," says Hariri. "Of course, the stones are not real. They are made of sponge."
Osama Kamel (34), a performer of "Can't Stop Lashing", is a professional lashing artist. "Customers hire me for wedding ceremonies or birthday parties," says Kamel. "The whips do not hurt me. The business is flourishing."
The Saudi Arabian government is very delighted with the Amnesty International's report that it closed a billion dollar oil deal with the USA and sent 100 golden toilets to the white house.
But some experts have accused the US government that it has paid Amnesty International huge sums of money to produce pro-Saudi Arabian reports.
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