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News ID: 62424
Publish Date : 23 January 2019 - 21:38

Saudi Arabia’s Sordid Human Rights Record


By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer
    
It is being said in international circles that of late human rights violations in Saudi Arabia have reached rock-bottom, as if previously there was respect for the rights of people in the fiefdom Britain created in 1932 for the desert brigand of Najd, Abdul-Aziz Aal-e Saud, seven years after he shed torrents of Muslim blood during his occupation of the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, as well as of Ta’ef and Jeddah.
Tuesday’s report by an American medical examiner in New York of alleged suicide of two young Saudi girls last October, less than a month after a Saudi female teenager made world headlines by barricading herself at Bangkok airport and then ending up as asylum seeker in Canada, is being fiercely debated.
No one in his right mind believes that Rotana Farea, 22, and her sister Tala, 16, whose bodies were found beside the Hudson River with no visible signs of trauma but tied together at the ankles and waist by duct tape, had committed suicide.
Observers believe it was foul play and possible involvement of Saudi agents in their obvious murder, especially since they had spoken of courting death rather than return to Saudi Arabia.
The regime in Riyadh which brutally dismembered journalist Jamal Khashoqchi alive in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, on the direct orders of the notorious Heir Apparent Mohamed bin Salman (MBS) – who imposed the destructive war on Yemen and violated all diplomatic norms by physically  thrashing Lebanese Prime Minister Sa’d al-Hariri – is capable of committing all crimes against humanity.
Those in doubt should focus on the macabre murders of the innocent people by the Takfiri terrorists in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nigeria, and elsewhere by these devils in human form created by Saudi Arabia.
This means 18-year Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun, who succeed in being granted asylum in Toronto, does not lie when she says that she might certainly be killed if she returns home, and that more and more women and teenaged girls intend to escape from the prison called Saudi Arabia, where there is no respect for human rights, especially of women.
Many women have been languishing behind bars for no apparent fault except for calling for freedom from the repressive Wahhabi regime.
Among the prominent detainees is Israa al-Ghomgham, who is the first Saudi woman to possibly face the death penalty for rights-related work. Charges against her include incitement to protest and providing moral support to rioters.
Ghomgham is a prominent Shi’a Muslim activist who documented mass demonstrations in the Eastern Province starting in 2011. She was arrested from her home in December 2015 along with her husband, and both of them are in prison.
The support by Washington for Riyadh is understandable in view of the criminal nature of President Donald Trump, but is it is indeed a matter of regret that the UN which for political reasons alleges violation of human rights in independent countries, has turned a blind eye to the crimes against humanity in Saudi Arabia.  
It is time Saudi Arabia should be taken to task for its human rights violations which will not end as is the situation in Yemen which is being daily bombarded by the Saudi and where people are facing famine and diseases.