update on saudi crackdown on human rights league clarinews clarinet com bahaa elkoussy writes upi and the newspapers who are reporting this being all owned by saudis i wonder how secure they are feeling by reporting all of these things maybe saudi arabia is allowed to have all the human rights violations it can have nobody is including them in any list those are designed for independent states cairo egypt upi the saudi government ordered the firing and why is this reported from cairo disbarment of six saudi human rights activists one week after they formed the country s first human rights group which has been condemned by the kingdom s highest religious authorities saudi media reported friday two saudi owned london based daily newspapers reported the dismissal of five of the activists who last week formed the committee for the protection of legal rights in the kingdom to hear allegations of human rights abuses the newspapers said orders were issued to dismiss abdallah al jabreen from his job with the iftaa department saudi arabia s highest religious advisory body hamad al seleifeh from the eduaction ministry and mohamed al muss eri abdallah al hamed and abdallah al tuwaijri from two universities in riyadh the saudi capital licenses to practice as law attorneys were also ordered revoked for suleiman al marshoudi and al muss eri and their law offices and any national branches were ordered closed for the same reason saudi interior minister prince nayef ben abdel aziz a member of the royal family rejected criticism of human rights violations in the kingdom in an interview broadcast friday he said nations and organizations say they protect human rights or demand respect of human rights but at the same time refuse to intervene in bosnia herzegovina where people are being killed raped and destroyed while even barred from carrying arms where is the humanity and human rights of which those are talking the prince said in the interview broadcast by the saudi owned london based middle east broadcasting center can somebody teach this man some logic what is the relationship between a human rights league in saudia and human rights in bosnia i guess if we wanted to know what is in italy we should know what is in brasil syrian joke prince nayef who controls saudi police and prisons said the kingdom s enforcement of islamic laws gives his country one of the their claim of following islamic law is the biggest disservice that they ever did to islam but hosni amin executive director of the cairo based arab organization for human rights said his group has documented evidence of human rights abuses in saudi arabia he said the aohr supported the but how about human rights in egypt mr amin i guess i am fighting on too many fronts i might retire very soon
