Saudi Arabia told the United Nations Human Rights Council that it fights torture and leads the way on human rights. While fibbing over its human rights record to the UN, the Kingdom currently plans to hang three juveniles on the basis of confessions that were extracted under duress. Bandar al-Ali, the Saudi Minister of Culture and Information, made his comments in a speech delivered to the UN in Geneva in response to a report delivered to the Human Rights Council by Juan Mendez, the special rapporteur on torture. RT reports: Al-Ali said the Gulf theocracy, which is closely allied to the UK, is a bastion of human rights. “Saudi Arabia is one of the very first countries which promoted human rights,” he said. “Such a support and a commitment to promote and protect human rights is but a duty imposed by the Islamic sharia from which the statutes of my country is derived.” He also defended Saudi Arabia’s record on torture, saying the regime “fights” the practice in all of its “physical and moral manifestations through strict legislation and executive measures that are applied on all.” His claims come as human rights groups fear three minors, imprisoned since 2012 [...]