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In a Monday morning appearance on CNBC, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross touted that, during President Trumps visit Saudi Arabia, there was not a single hint of a protester anywhere there during the whole time we were there.
Pressed by the anchor, Becky Quick, that the lack of protests could be attributable to Saudi Arabia being a police state where protesting is banned, Ross brushed it off.
The mood was a genuinely good mood, Ross said. As proof he offered that Saudi state security personnel gave him two gigantic bushels of dates, which Ross said was a from-the-heart, genuine gesture.
A recent study by Human Rights Watch found that Saudi Arabia continued arbitrary arrests, trials, and convictions of peaceful dissidents. According to the report, in 2015, over a dozen prominent activists convicted on charges arising from their peaceful activities were serving prison sentences.
https://thinkprogress.org/ross-protest-trump-saudi-arabia-5ea7f5cc2ee8
WinstonSmith00
(228 posts)Being a dictator would be a whole lot easier.
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)Could it be because protesters are jailed and sometimes beheaded?
malaise
(269,067 posts)about the US Constitution. They'd love to shut down protests in the US. Everyone should expose these authoritarian clowns.