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Dhahban Central Prison (Arabic: سجن المباحث العامة بذهبان), also known as Dhahban Prison, is a maximum-security prison facility located near Dahaban, Jeddah, in Saudi Arabia. It was built in 2015 as part of a renovation of the Jeddah Prisons infrastructure, at a cost of SR400 million. It has the cap
acity to hold 7,500 inmates. When it opened, 3,000 inmates were transferred there from Braiman Prison. In 2015, the regional director for prisons Mani Al-Otaibi said it was the most advanced prison in Saudi Arabia, with state of the art surveillance technologies. The facility is used to hold high-profile political prisoners, as well as members of al-Qaeda and the Islamic State. It holds male and female prisoners, as well as some small children of female prisoners. It has been alleged that the female inmates have been tortured. Detained female activists were electrocuted and flogged repeatedly, according to Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch. An anonymous Saudi official denied that torture was condoned by the state. Saudi Arabia claims that inmates get "top treatment". The Badawi siblings are currently being held in this prison; with the Government of Canada demanding their release...
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