UN rights experts denounce planned Saudi executions of megacity opponents

[Eugene]

Source: Agence France-Presse

UN rights experts denounce planned Saudi executions of megacity opponents

AFP in Geneva
Wed 3 May 2023 18.41 BST

UN rights experts have denounced the pending execution of three members of a Saudi tribe, reportedly in connection with their opposition to a planned Red Sea megacity.

Three members of the Huwaitat tribe, which inhabits the desert area in north-western Saudi Arabia where the crown prince Mohammed bin Salman’s $500bn (£400bn) futuristic megacity is under construction, face the “imminent risk of execution”, more than a dozen independent experts warned.

“Despite being charged with terrorism, they were reportedly arrested for resisting forced evictions in the name of the Neom project and the construction of a 170km linear city called The Line,” they said in a statement.

The three men – Shadly Ahmad Mahmoud Abou Taqiqa al-Huwaiti, Ibrahim Salih Ahmad Abou Khalil al-Huwaiti and Atallah Moussa Mohammed al-Huwaiti – were reportedly sentenced to death on 5 August last year and their sentences were upheld on appeal on 23 January, the statement said.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/03/un-rights-experts-denounce-planned-saudi-executions

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[jpak]

1. Sounds like something DeSatan would do

In Florida.

Yup

[Alexander Of Assyria]

2. Being allies with the Princes of Death is making a mockery of all American values.

Cut the cord. They don’t even hate Iran anymore, so it’s just the oil and the oceans of money you want? I don’t get it, lots of money and oil in the world.

[peppertree]

3. To think they played a central role in Lawrence of Arabia's campaigns - and now this.

They might as well still be under Turkish rule.