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The Biden administrationâs failure to impose sanctions on Saudi Arabiaâs crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, has led to a increase in severe sentences for political prisoners in the kingdom, the Guardian can reveal.
The UK-based human rights organisation Grant Liberty found that twice as many harsh sentences had been meted out to Saudi prisoners of conscience in April than in the first three months of this year combined. It followed the Biden administrationâs decision on 26 February to publish an intelligence report that showed the crown prince, âapproved an operation in Istanbul, Turkey, to capture or kill Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggiâ.
The Biden administration’s failure to impose sanctions on Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, has led to a increase in severe sentences for political prisoners in the kingdom, the Guardian can reveal. The UK-based human rights organisation Grant Liberty found that twice as many harsh sentences had been meted out to Saudi prisoners of conscience in April than in the first three months of this year combined. It followed the Biden.
The sentencing of a political dissident in Saudi Arabia has presented a major test for a U.S. administration promising to put “human rights at the center of foreign policy.”
37-year-old Abdulrahman al-Sadhan has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after a sham trial in Saudi Arabia. His crime? Al-Sadhan is alleged to be behind a satirical Twitter account mocking the Saudi ruling family.
His lawyer has until Wednesday, May 5 to file an appeal, but this case is most likely to be resolved politically, after strong intervention from Washington.
The month before Joe Biden won last year’s presidential election, he promised that, if elected, he would “reassess our relationship with the Kingdom [of Saudi Arabia] … and make sure America does not check its values at the door to sell arms or buy oil.”
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Human rights organization Amnesty International says Saudi Arabia has used a special anti-terrorism court as a weapon of repression to imprison peaceful critics, dissidents, activists, journalists, clerics and members of the kin.
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Saudi Arabian aid worker Abdulrahman al-Sadhan was sentenced by a counterterrorism court to 20 years in prison followed by a 20-year travel ban.
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Saudi Arabian aid worker Abdulrahman al-Sadhan was sentenced by a counterterrorism court to 20 years in prison followed by a 20-year travel ban. He was reportedly arrested on March 12, 2018, while at the Red Crescent Society offices in the capital Riyadh, where he worked.