Saudi Arabia chosen to head human rights panel whilst sentencing citizen to crucifixion

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Unsurprising but nevertheless depressing.

 

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Fucking awful:

Press Release - Saudi Women’s Rights Activist and Mother of Two Sentenced to 34-years in Jail - The Freedom Initiative

 

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Saudi keeping it really classy (that is not to tar all Saudi people with the same brush but the mere fact that this flourishes there speaks volumes):

Maids trafficked and sold to wealthy Saudis on black market

 

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Saudi keeping it really classy (that is not to tar all Saudi people with the same brush but the mere fact that this flourishes there speaks volumes):

Maids trafficked and sold to wealthy Saudis on black market

A black market in maids

 

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Lots of info coming out now about the mass executions

Secretive Saudi executions leave families in the dark

Relatives of prisoners are given no advance warning of executions, and left with no bodies to bury.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

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Wouldn't be surprised if the guy is already dead, alas. Fuck MBS:

Saudi Arabia: Family of imprisoned and forcibly disappeared activist seek answers

 

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UN rights experts denounce planned Saudi executions of megacity opponents

 

[tim]

Murderous cunts.

 

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More awfulness:

Nine facing execution in Saudi Arabia for acts committed as minors, despite official claims to have ended this illegal practice

 

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The bastards are at war, are often torturing people then murdering them, not to mention freedom of speech, human rights, womens rights....and we invite them to the coronation.

 

[tim]

Just being a little too popular can get you into trouble.

Arrest of Saudi scholar and influencer another sign of social media crackdown

Detention of public health expert Mohammed Alhajji surprised many observers as he was seen as apolitical

www.google.com

 

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Helena Kennedy was on R4 a moment ago. Her recalling the Khashoggi murder was grissly to say the least, yet we are rolling out the red carpet for these people

Rishi Sunak and Saudi crown prince hope to meet ‘at earliest opportunity’

Leaders discuss plans to ‘progress UK-Saudi cooperation’ amid reports that Mohammed bin Salman has been invited to UK this autumn

www.theguardian.com

But the Khashoggi incindent was just one human rights incident amongst hundreds of others

G20 nations urged to boycott Saudi summit over wave of executions

Human rights lawyer Helena Kennedy says Riyadh has executed 134 people already this year, with cleric Salman al-Odah among those facing the same threat

www.middleeasteye.net

 

[tim]

If this trip happens, it should be used as an opportunity to publicly mock and humiliate MbS in the same way that Trump's visit was used to belittle him. Hopefully causing maximum damage to the Anglo- Saudi relationship.

 

[tim]

Mass murder of migrants at the Saudi-Yemeni border. Yet, the British state still fawns. If they can get an international arrest warrant for Putin, why can't they get one for MbS?

 

[JimW]

Mass murder of migrants at the Saudi-Yemeni border. Yet, the British state still fawns. If they can get an international arrest warrant for Putin, why can't they get one for MbS?

AP has a story on this: Rights group says Saudi Arabian border guards fired on and killed hundreds of Ethiopian migrants (Apols if that's in the tweet, can't read it here).

 

[Pickman's model]

Mass murder of migrants at the Saudi-Yemeni border. Yet, the British state still fawns. If they can get an international arrest warrant for Putin, why can't they get one for MbS?

they can, no doubt, but they won't

 

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Money talks

‘Fired on like rain’: Saudi border guards accused of mass killings of Ethiopians

Report by Human Rights Watch details alleged attacks using explosive weapons and small arms on Saudi Arabia-Yemen border

www.theguardian.com

 

[DaveCinzano]

Mass murder of migrants at the Saudi-Yemeni border. Yet, the British state still fawns.

Probably taking notes

 

[tim]

And another death sentence for sending tweets critical of Saudi state policies. That won't get in the way of the fawning when MbS arrives.

 

[Pickman's model]

And another death sentence for sending tweets critical of Saudi state policies. That won't get in the way of the fawning when MbS arrives.

تشکیلات دمکراتیک زنان ایران – برای آزادی، برابری، عدالت، صلح و حفظ محیط زیست

www.tdzi.org

If adolf hitler flew in today they'd send a limousine anyway

 

[teqniq]

And another death sentence for sending tweets critical of Saudi state policies. That won't get in the way of the fawning when MbS arrives.

Link is the website of Democratic Organisation of Iranian Women?

 

[tim]

Link is the website of Democratic Organisation of Iranian Women?

Yes, it was but it has been corrected.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

If adolf hitler flew in today they'd send a limousine anyway

Its not just the UK government. The US enabled this shitty regime and now kowtows to it to keep the oil flowing. They should be an international pariah, instead of welcomed with gold limos.

 

[petee]

Vice Pulled a Documentary Critical of Saudi Arabia. But Here It Is.

Vice’s hard-nosed coverage on Saudi Arabia changed after investment deals with the repressive kingdom. A deleted documentary is not completely gone, however.

theintercept.com

 

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I am not sure why, but this caption doesn't seem quite right

 

[CNT36]

Looks like Sunak's been photoshopped in though it's possible he looks like that in the flesh.

 

[tim]

Hardly a surprise but a court case currently in progress brings up the issue of the millions given to Saudi princelings by British ministers and civil servants as kickbacks to ensure that BAE and other British companies got huge Saudi contracts.

UK ministers approved £60m payments to Saudi royals to maintain arms deal, court told

 

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Well, I can't say I'm hugely surprised unfortunately:

Saudi Arabia Steps Up Arrests Of Those Attacking Israel Online

 

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A tweet from Jay Rayner
"I've just received and vigorously declined an invitation to write a 'culinary guide' to Saudi Arabia, fully funded by the Saudi govt. It's a murderous, homophobic, misogynistic regime. I've been shocked by the willingness of various hospitality businesses to take their money 1/"
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"The killing and then butchering of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul by the govt should be reason enough not to take their money. I'm mentioning this in a blatant attempt to shame any other food journalist who considers taking this blood stained gig."
There is more ( I don't have access to twitter, I found this somewhere else).

 

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No surprises that no where is safe

UK ‘turning a blind eye’ to threats to kill Saudi activists living in exile

Saudis living in the UK claim Riyadh is targeting them for speaking out on human rights and jailing of female activists

www.theguardian.com