Les Walker

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Charge:	Bombing
Sentence:	12 years
Years Imprisoned:	2
Year Crime:
Year Convicted:	2000
Year Cleared:	2003
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Saudi Arabia
County or Region of Crime:	Riyadh
City of Crime:	Riyadh
Result:	Pardoned
Summary of Case:	"Les Walker was one of the Saudi Six. Wrongly convicted British expatriate living in Saudi Arabia of being involved in a bombing in Saudi Arabia. One of 6 co-defendants who all deny they voluntarily confessed on Saudi television to the bombing. All the men claim to have been tortured, and all 6 confessions use similar words. Also, the men weren't provided with an interpreter fluent enough to have translated the alleged confession from English to Arabic. Pardoned on August 8, 2003 and immediately deported to the UK."
Conviction Caused By:	False confession after being tortured.
Innocence Proved By:	Granted Executive Clemency by the Saudi government
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Age When Imprisoned:
Age When Released:
Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"Suspects in Saudi blasts Claim Their Innocence: as bombings continue, some question expatriates 'confessions,'" Susan Taylor Martin (St. Petersburg Times), Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 11-5-02, p. A4."
Information Location 1:	http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/94190_saudi05.shtml
Information Source 2:	"Saudi six 'left to rot', Paul Harris (staff), The Guardian (London, UK), Feb. 16, 2003 "
Information Location 2:	"http://www.guardian.co.uk/saudi/story/0,11599,896776,00.html"
Information Source 3:	"Greed and torture at the House of Saud, Staff, The Observer, Nov. 24, 2002 "
Information Location 3:	"http://observer.guardian.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4553603,00.html"
Information Source 4:	"Saudis release eight Westerners jailed in bombings, Ed Johnson, AP London, August 9, 2003"
Information Location 4:	http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=saudifree09&date=20030809&query=cottle
Information Source 5:	"Saudis free bomb blast Britons, Staff and Agencies, The Guardian, London UK, August 8, 2003"
Information Location 5:	"http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1014880,00.html"
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Les Walker

Charge:

Bombing

Sentence:

12 years

Years Imprisoned:

2

Year Crime:

Year Convicted:

2000

Year Cleared:

2003

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Saudi Arabia

County or Region of Crime:

Riyadh

City of Crime:

Riyadh

Result:

Pardoned

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

False confession after being tortured.

Innocence Proved By:

Granted Executive Clemency by the Saudi government

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

"Suspects in Saudi blasts Claim Their Innocence: as bombings continue, some question expatriates 'confessions,'" Susan Taylor Martin (St. Petersburg Times), Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 11-5-02, p. A4."

Information Location 1:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/94190_saudi05.shtml

Information Source 2:

"Saudi six 'left to rot', Paul Harris (staff), The Guardian (London, UK), Feb. 16, 2003 "

Information Location 2:

"http://www.guardian.co.uk/saudi/story/0,11599,896776,00.html"

Information Source 3:

"Greed and torture at the House of Saud, Staff, The Observer, Nov. 24, 2002 "

Information Location 3:

"http://observer.guardian.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4553603,00.html"

Information Source 4:

"Saudis release eight Westerners jailed in bombings, Ed Johnson, AP London, August 9, 2003"

Information Location 4:

http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=saudifree09&date=20030809&query=cottle

Information Source 5:

"Saudis free bomb blast Britons, Staff and Agencies, The Guardian, London UK, August 8, 2003"

Information Location 5:

"http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1014880,00.html"

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