{"id":745,"date":"2017-09-15T16:50:11","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T16:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madaresharghi.com\/human-rights-watch-censures-saudis-coordinated-crackdown-on-dissent\/"},"modified":"2017-09-15T16:50:11","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T16:50:11","slug":"human-rights-watch-censures-saudis-coordinated-crackdown-on-dissent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madaresharghi.ir\/en\/human-rights-watch-censures-saudis-coordinated-crackdown-on-dissent\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Rights Watch censures Saudi's 'coordinated crackdown on dissent'"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\tAccording to multiple unidentified sources and tweets by rights organizations, journalists and others, Saudi security forces had arrested about 20 people, known for opposing the absolute monarchy in the Persian Gulf, since September 9.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe US-based advocacy group censured the detentions as politically motivated.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHuman Rights Watch said Saudi Arabia had tried nearly all peaceful dissidents in its terrorism tribunal, the Specialized Criminal Court, since 2014.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t“Outlandish sentences against peaceful activists and dissidents demonstrate Saudi Arabia’s complete intolerance toward citizens who speak out for human rights and reform,” said Sarah Leah Whitson, the Middle East director at Human Rights Watch.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\n\t\t\tThe detainees include\u00a0two prominent clerics, identified as Salman al-Odah and Awad al-Qarni, whose opinions about social life in Saudi Arabia have already sparked controversies.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe arrests come amid reports that King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud plans to renounce power in favor of his son\u00a0Crown Prince Mohammed.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHuman Rights Watch said the detentions could be connected to efforts by the Saudi crown prince to consolidate power.<\/p>\n

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The undated photo shows Saudi cleric Salman al-Odah, who has been detained for opposing the regime in Riyadh.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\n\t\t\tOdah was arrested on the night of September 9 for posting a message on Twitter in support of mediation to settle a dispute between Saudi Arabia and Qatar.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tSaudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates cut their diplomatic ties with Qatar on June 5, accusing Doha of sponsoring terrorism and destabilizing the region. Doha denies the charges.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThere has been no official comment by Saudi authorities on the campaign of arrests but at the start of the week the Saudi attorney general warned that any attack on “national unity” or the “image of the state” was a “terrorist crime.”<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tSince the establishment of Saudi Arabia as an absolute monarchy in 1932, the system has been effectively known as a hereditary dictatorship and monarchy.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe kingdom is struggling with plummeting oil prices. The Al Saud regime also faces criticism over its deadly campaign against neighboring Yemen, which was launched on March 26.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tMany also see Riyadh’s policies as a major cause of the crises in the region, especially in Syria and Iraq.<\/p>\n

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