36 countries slap Saudi with rare rebuke over human rights

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Dozens of countries have issued a rare and stinging rebuke of Saudi Arabia's treatment of detained activists, including imprisoned women’s rights campaigners.

. The women were held without charge from May until Friday when prosecutors accused them of trying to"undermine the Kingdom's security, stability, and national unity."

, who faces the death penalty. According to his family, al-Awda is accused of incitement against the ruler and spreading discord. Salman al-Awda was embraced by al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden in the 1990s and later jailed for opposing the government. He was later rehabilitated and went on to become one of the kingdom’s most popular clerics. Al-Awda has since called for greater democracy and social reform, and publicly denounced extremist violence.“The international community finally woke up,” said Alaoudh, a senior fellow at Georgetown University's Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding.

While not referring to Vierra by name, a State Department spokesperson on Tuesday said officials had “seen media reports of a U.S. citizen unable to leave Saudi Arabia with her daughter.”

 

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SAUDI ARABIA is not Iraq it's not Afghanistan or Venezuela the elite realize that and they won't dare to escalate more , people are willing to die to aquire a SAUDI nationality so what that tells you ..... NBC N for nonsense B for bullshit C for crazy .

Says the countries that launch wars and colonizes other countries. France is an example with the current protests. Canada zero fucks given to indigenous. And others write laws and never go by it. This stupid anti-Saudi campaign is shameful and just shows how desperate they look

No! Not the Stinging Rebuke!

Words without any action are like empty promises, MR Bone Saw and the SAUDI regime have committed many crimes in cold blood,till today we are still yet to see a serious international trial for a single one crime,As Long as Saudi’s are paying cash, their crimes will go unanswered

astroehlein About freaking time

astroehlein Saudi Arabia should be a pariah state, sanctioned & quarantined from the rest of the world.

Just now finding that out they have always had that attitude

Glinner Any objective scrutiny of SA is islamophobic bigotry. I know because I read Noam Chomsky & I watch Majority Report w/ David Pakman every day.

Are you guys just now getting the news of how Sharia works?

'maybe we should cool it for awhile.'

We Need A Special counsel Investigation Into 9/11 & US_OSC

I’ll take “Who Wasn’t One of Them,” for $1000, Alex. Answer:

But they’ll still keep buying oil from them, eh?

Meanwhile T-RUmp continues to refuse to release any findings about the brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi, while at the same time pushing for a fast track for providing nuclear technology to MbS. The USA is AWOL.

But will it actually CHANGE anything?

This Is The BARBARIC & MURDEROUS Regime of KingSalman & Son That Our US Media Continues To SHOVE Down Our American Throats!! Morning_Joe MitchellReports MSNBC JakeTapper CNN NyTimes Jerusalem_Post WashingtonPost AlArabiya_Eng Saudi_Gazette AP Reuters USAToday WSJ

A 'stinging rebuke'. I'm sure they will be most hurt and chastised by that🙄

Aha, the killer prince again. It's always nice to recognize a familiar (murderer) face. 🙂

Except the US.

But not Trump.

And now what

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