Human Rights say arrest of businessmen by Saudi Arabia a way to acquire money

Saudi Arabia Nov 22: Many businessmen and Prince were called to Hotel Ritz for meeting and were detained by Saudi Arabia.

Around 200 people are detained in Riyadh's luxury hotel and the government is trying to seize hundreds of billions of dollars claiming that the money was stolen through corrupt means.

Saudi officials and their supporters are attempting to justify the indefinite detentions as an ordinary part of a plea-bargaining process, similar to the approach Western prosecutors use with white-collar criminals.

But Human rights say that the comparision ignores main differences such as legal protection for the accused and independent judiciary.

The Human Rights have even claimed that the detention of top businessmen and princes by Saudi is to acquire money and this was shown as the primary motive behind arrest.

"This appears to be taking place outside anything that resembles a clear legal process," said Adam Coogle, a Middle East researcher at Human Rights Watch who monitors Saudi Arabia. "If the Saudi authorities don't offer a chance for legal defence, then this is nothing other than a shakedown."