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zaterdag 9 november 2019

In Saudi Arabia, Reform Comes at a Punishing Cost


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THE WEEK IN RIGHTS | NOVEMBER 7, 2019
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Important social reforms enacted under Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman have been accompanied by deepening repression and abusive practices meant to silence dissidents and critics.
Mohammed bin Salman has allowed women to travel and drive, but Saudi authorities have also locked away many of the country’s leading reformist thinkers and activists on his watch, some of whom called for these very changes.
It’s not real reform in Saudi Arabia if it takes place in a dystopia where rights activists are imprisoned and freedom of expression exists only for the few.
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The Supreme Court has effectively declared that free expression in Israel does not include completely mainstream advocacy for Palestinian rights.
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“They are gay and they cannot enter,” said legislator Jairo “Bolota” Salazar on October 29 about a group of protesters outside the Panamanian National Assembly, as he barred them from entering the building.
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Bosco Ntaganda, whose armed groups terrorized the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, was sentenced by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday to 30 years in prison for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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