De mensenrechtenadvocaten, Ronald Dixon en Ken Macdonald, deden afgelopen woensdag een oproep aan de VN. Dit n.a.v. een groot aantal arrestaties in S-A van mensenrechtenactivisten
Lawyers Call to Remove Saudi Arabia From UN Human Rights Council
February
1, 2018 at 9:28 am
Written
by Middle
East Monitor
(MEMO) — Two
British human rights lawyers yesterday called on
the UN General Assembly to suspend Saudi Arabia’s membership to the
UN Human Rights Council.
Lawyers
Rodney Dixon QC and Lord Kenneth Donald John Macdonald accused Saudi
Arabia of committing serious human rights violations, including the
arrest of dozens of dissidents.
The
report said Saudi dissidents and bloggers were arrested
in September last
year and kept in unknown places.
The
report said the arrests are very secretive and it is difficult to
know details about them, such as the identities of those detained or
the charges against them.
Reuters has
recently quoted sources as saying that Saudi Arabia sentenced human
rights activists Mohammed Al-Otaibi and Abdullah Al-Atawi to 14 years
and seven years in prison respectively.
The
Kingdom accused the activists of establishing a human rights
association about five years ago and publishing reports and
information on media and social media networks about the situation in
Saudi.
