Gisteren ontving ik via Anti-Media een artikel van ‘Middle East Eye’, waarin de verdediging van het reli-fascistische bewind in Saoedi-Arabië is te lezen voor de aanstaande geplande moord op 14 sjiitische activisten……….
Mensen die vreedzaam demonstreerden voor de rechten van sjiieten in de koninklijke Saoedische dictatuur, waar sjiieten als derderangs burgers worden behandeld………
Het is algemeen bekend dat S-A verdachten net zo lang martelt, tot ze elke misdaad bekennen, zelfs als ze meer dan 10.000 km. verwijderd waren van dat misdrijf. Ook in dit geval zijn de verdachten gemarteld….. Het meest schrijnende is wel een jongere die bijna blind en doof is en ondanks dat werd veroordeeld wegens terrorisme…… Een paar van de verdachten werden veroordeeld voor het gebruiken van de telefoon voor het organiseren van de vreedzame protesten in 2011/2012…..
Moet u nagaan, dan is Saoedi-Arabië ook nog eens voorzitter van een mensenrechtenforum in de VN Mensenrechtenraad……
Hoe lang kan Saoedi-Arabië nog doorgaan met haar ongebreidelde terreur in binnen- en buitenland (zelfs een genocide in buurland Jemen….), voordat de wereld dit land op haar plaats zet en alle banden verbreekt met dit fascistische tuig??!!!! Vooralsnog is het weer doodstil in het Nederlandse ministerie van BuZA, waar Koenders net doet of z’n neus bloed….. Een neus die hij vooral in verzonnen zaken steekt en dan wel een grote bek kan opzetten, zolang de ‘daders’ maar uit Rusland, China, Noord-Korea en Griekenland komen…………..
Lees het hele verhaal en geeft het door!
Saudi
Arabia Defends Decision to Execute 14 Activists
August
6, 2017 at 8:50 am
Written
by Middle
East Eye
(MEE) Saudi
Arabia defended its decision to execute more than a dozen Shia
activists involved in demonstrations during the 2011 and 2012 Arab
Spring revolts.
In
a rare statement, the Saudi authorities said it had sentenced the
activists to death based on a fair trial.
Human-rights
activists claim that some of the sentenced men were tortured and
forced into making false confessions. This later led to them being
convicted to death in a secretive counterterrorism court.
The
group included a teenager who was arrested at the airport before
boarding a flight to visit a university in Michigan, and a youth who
is half-deaf and nearly blind, activists said.
Shias
in the Sunni-majority kingdom have long complained of discrimination
and harassment by authorities.
Middle
East Eye this week reported on
the continued siege Saudi authorities have imposed on a Shia-majority
town in the east of the country*.
Last
month, the kingdom’s highest court upheld the death sentences,
clearing the way for the executions to take place any day now.
A
spokesman for the Saudi Ministry of Justice, Mansour al-Ghafari, said
in a statement released on Friday that the trials met international
standards for fairness and due process and that the “defendants
enjoy full legal rights”.
All
of them had access to lawyers, and all court hearings were in the
presence of the media and human-rights observers, Ghafari said.
In
a response on Saturday, prominent human-rights group Reprieve told
the Washington Post that
the Saudi government’s statement made several false claims and was
“at odds with assessments by the UN and rights groups”.
“Saudi
Arabia’s attempts to justify these 14 unlawful executions are
appalling,” said Reprieve director
Maya
Foa. “This statement is a serious mischaracterization of the trial
process against the 14 men.”
At
least one defendant was never permitted to see a lawyer, and in
another defendant’s case, no evidence against him was presented at
trial, said Reprieve.
Officials
with the United Nations last year said the secretive counterterrorism
court “raises serious concerns about its lack of independence and
due procedure.” Its judges, they said, often refused to act on
claims by defendants that “they had been subjected to torture”.
Ghafari
said the death sentences were handed down only “for the most
dangerous crimes”. Saudi officials in state media have claimed that
the 14 men were arrested on terrorism-related charges. But activists
say the Saudi government continues to conduct executions for alleged
non-violent crimes.
Some
of the 14 men were convicted of using cellphones to organize protests
and of using social media, according
to Reprieve.
“Governments
close to Saudi Arabia – including the Trump administration and the
UK – must urgently call on the kingdom to halt these executions,”
Foa said.
Other
crimes that are punishable by death include adultery, blasphemy and
sorcery. Execution methods include beheading, “crucifixion”
(which involves beheading followed by public display of the body),
firing squad and stoning.
By MEE
staff /
Republished with permission / Middle
East Eye / Report
a typo
* Zie: ‘Koenders nog steeds stil: Saoedi-Arabië bezig met etnische zuivering op eigen bodem en nog steeds levert het westen wapens aan terreurstaat S-A…..‘