officials informed him that an appeals court had increased his sentence to the death penalty.56 Another current detainee serving a 20-year sentence for drug smuggling, Murtaza, recounted his experience by phone from prison: I just remember that when I was sent to [Saudi Arabia] by [an agent that] had injected me with something and I was not in my right mind. When I reached Dam somehow I ended up in the wrong line and staff asked me who I was and why I was standing there. They realized that I was not cognizant and took me to scanning room, where they found [the drugs] in my stomach. They kept asking me about that object inside me and I had no answer. I was shut in a small room for 10 days and when they took that object out of me.57 Murtaza said that Saudi authorities did not attempt to investigate his claim that he smuggled drugs involuntarily. Babar, the father of another Pakistani detainee currently on death row for drug smuggling, affiliated with the agency that obtained a visa for him to enter Saudi Arabia held him at a hotel in Karachi prior to his trip and forced him to swallow drug capsules. He said the men kept him under observation the entire flight. He said that Saudi authorities detained his son immediately upon landing and sentenced him to death within two months.58 56 Justice Project Pakistan telephone interview with Latif, December 24, 2015. 57 Justice Project Pakistan telephone interview with Murtaza, June 3, 2016. 58 Justice Project Pakistan interview with Babar, June 17, 2016. AUGHT IN A WEB 28

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