What life is like inside Saudi Arabia's '5-star prison' the Ritz-Carlton where some of the kingdom
More than 200 members of Saudi Arabia's elite, including 11 princes, are now being detained at what is quite literally a gilded prison: the Ritz-Carlton hotel in the capital, Riyad
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Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is widely seen as the muscle behind the recent anti-corruption purge as he consolidates power in a way Saudi Arabia hasn't seen in decades.
In a new report, the BBC reporter Lyse Doucet and camera operator Philip Goodwin described the atmosphere at the luxury hotel as "very serious."
Doucet and Goodwin, the first journalists allowed into the hotel since the purge, were under police escort and held to strict rules not to film anyone's face or quote anyone by name.
Here's a glimpse of what life in what Doucet called a "five-star prison" is like for its inhabitants.
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