According to Abbas ny defense lawyer. There is no arrangement for defense lawyers. The legal personnel submit your story and the police records to the 20 The lack of legal assistance sometimes caused defendants to sign confessions or agree to verdicts which they did not read or review carefully and sometimes directly harmed their interests. For example, Kamran said that he accepted a verdict and sentence of 10 days and 80 lashes without knowing that it also contained a deportation order. Wishing to return to work as soon as possible Kamran agreed not to contest the sentence, only to find out later that he agreed to his own deportation. He said: Judges do not usually talk to anyone except for prisoners involved in very serious crimes. He did not talk to me much. After that [he] asked me to sign the confession letter in such a hurry that I did not get a chance to read it. I just silently accepted what was written in the letter because I wanted to get over the whole thing quickly. I was thinking that I am given just 10 days of imprisonment and after that I would be released. But when I reached Qatif police station, a policeman who gave me his phone to call my cousin told me that the judge gave deportation orders for me. I was very upset after that. I asked the head of Qatif police station that I want to appear before such a harsh sentence. But the head of police station said that he could not take me. In another case, Hafiz, the husband of a Pakistani detainee, said that his wife and his sister were accosted by two other women at the airport in Pakistan before flying to Saudi Arabia to perform the Umra religious pilgrimage.21 He said that the two women said that afford to send it. They asked the two women to carry it instead, and they agreed. He said that Saudi authorities detained them at Jed shortly after their arrival during the summer of 2015 for carrying drugs. He continued: When they reached at the Jeddah airport, the Saudi police [who] checked their luggage told them that those tablets were not for medication but they 20 Justice Project Pakistan interview with Abbas, January 12, 2016. 21 Justice Project Pakistan interview with Hafiz, Karachi, September 16, 2016. AUGHT IN A WEB 16

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