I can only reprint this (via Instapundit):

Sampson's ordeal is Canada's shame
Feds took see-no-evil approach to his claims of Saudi torture
By PETER WORTHINGTON

Bill Sampson, recently released from a Saudi Arabian prison, has been telling his story in the National Post and on Global television, and as horrific as his ordeal was, even more appalling is the Canadian government's behaviour throughout. The Canadian government, first through John Manley as foreign minister and then his successor Bill Graham, was not only reluctant to believe allegations of torture but sided with the Saudis. After Sampson's release, the most conceded by Mr. Graham has been that there was "mistreatment."

Mistreatment!

Good Lord!

Sampson's accounts are graphic: Strung upside down and beaten, the soles of his feet whipped, being forced to squat, arms tied around his legs and a bar pushed under his knees and then hung between chairs and spun and beaten, his genitals hit, testicles stamped on, and more.

"No evidence of torture," insisted the Canadian government for 31 months of his imprisonment on trumped up charges. Sampson was sentenced to death in secret -- not by beheading as we understand the term, but tied to a cross and his throat sliced with a sword, leaving the spinal column intact. Civilized, eh?

According to Sampson, when he was visited by consular official he was told what to say, with his torturers present at the interview. The official, who couldn't have cared less, also read from a script: "Are you being well treated? Tortured? Getting books and letters from home?"

Sampson mumbled appropriately, knowing his fate if he departed from script. Canada was satisfied.