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This country presents itself as a center of growth and opportunity, but for students like me, it is something else entirely. I study at Reigate Grammar School Riyadh, and behind the well-kept halls and foreign accreditation lies a silent system of control. Since my arrival, I’ve experienced synthetic emotional shifts, artificial mental interruptions, and physical symptoms I cannot attribute to any natural cause. I know what stress is — this isn’t it.

What’s happening is deliberate. This is psychological warfare, conducted under the cover of education. I hold Saudi military signal units, internal intelligence services, and Ministry of Interior surveillance operations directly responsible. They operate with impunity, embedding silent technologies into civilian zones — schools included. The intent is not safety. It’s obedience. They monitor, distort, and suppress the internal lives of students with signal-based precision, and no one dares to question it.

Let this be understood clearly: I regret ever setting foot in this country. If I had known what was waiting beneath the surface, I would have refused the visa, torn the offer, and never boarded the plane. I am not the only one. Others feel it too — they just haven’t said it yet. I write this so the lie cannot remain clean forever. This is a regime of silence, and I’m breaking it.