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06-01-2017 03:34 PM |
After Trump's Approval, Saudi's Have Now Extended Executions To Peaceful Protesters
Trump commended the Saudi's iron grip on their citizens & Trump got paid during this trip so he doesn't care.
Now in Saudi you will be killed if you peacefully protest.
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Three days after Trump?s May 21 photo op with the king of Bahrain, Bahraini security forces raided the home of an activist cleric, killing at least one person and arresting hundreds involved in a sit-in demonstration. Officials said the action was necessary because the protesters were harboring fugitives aligned with Iran and refusing to disperse peacefully, but rights watchdogs were not convinced. ?Yet again the architects of bloody destabilizing violence in Bahrain appear to be the [U.S.-friendly] Al Khalifa government, and the timing of this operation ― two days after King Hamad?s convivial meeting with President Trump ― can hardly be a coincidence,? Human Rights Watch said.
Reprieve noted that a contentious terrorism court upheld on Thursday the death sentence of a 23-year-old man with disabilities for protesting in 2012. It?s the first time the Saudis have taken such a step since they included detained dissidents in a mass execution last year, sparking global outrage. FULL STORY
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