SUADI ARABIA AND THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL: A SICK JOKE FOR 2014
From next year Saudi Arabia will be a member of the UN Human Rights Council.
This week saw the
sentencing of Saudi human rights activist Umar al-Saed to four years in prison
and 300 lashes for peacefully campaigning for the independent human rights
organisation the Saudi Political and Civil Rights Association, (ACPRA).
Umar al-Saed |
Mr al-Saed, 24 was
arrested on April 28th this year after refusing interrogation
without a lawyer. Currently seven other members of ACPRA are in prison.
In March a judge decided
to ‘dissolve’ ACPRA and sentenced two of its founders, Mohammad al-Qahtani and
Abdullah al-Hamid to 10 and 11 years in prison respectively. The sentencing of ACPRA members is part of a sustained campaign currently being waged by the Saudi government on human rights activists.[1]
The UN has now become a sad joke. As we used to say “you
couldn’t make it up!”
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