US-Saudi dual citizens among eight critics of regime detained

Source: The Guardian/AP

Saudi Arabia has detained eight people, including two dual US-Saudi citizens, in a fresh round of arrests targeting supporters of women’s rights and those with ties to jailed activists, a person with knowledge of the arrests has said.

The arrests are the first sweep targeting individuals perceived as critics of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman since the killing of writer Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in October. The arrests come despite global outcry over Khashoggi’s killing by Saudi agents in an operation directed by former aides to the crown prince.

The arrested individuals, nearly all of whom were detained on Thursday, are not seen as frontline activists. They are writers and advocates who quietly supported greater social reforms and most had ties to a group of women’s rights activists currently on trial.

Those detained include a pregnant woman and seven men, among them two US-Saudi nationals: Badr al-Ibrahim, a writer and physician, and Salah al-Haidar, whose mother is the prominent women’s rights activist Aziza al-Yousef, who was recently temporarily released from prison.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/05/us-saudi-dual-citizens-among-eight-critics-of-regime-detained

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A bold move by Mohammed Bone Saw. This puts his best mate Jared Kushner and his brain-damaged-but-hypnotised-by-Saudi-wealth father-in-law on the line - support the murdering absolute monarchy they admire and love, or their own citizens? My guess is they'll go with the worship of Mammon. As the article points out, another US-Saudi citizen has been in prison since 2017 without charge, and they're doing fuck all about that. And he's rich, while these new ones are activists, so Kushner will want them locked up.