Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Saudi Arabia ramps up clampdown on human rights activists

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Headline Title: Saudi Arabia ramps up clampdown on human rights activists 18 June 2012 A prominent Saudi Arabian human rights defender was brought before a Riyadh court on Monday on 11 activism-related charges in the latest example of what Amnesty International called a “troubling string of court cases” aimed at silencing human rights campaigners. The charges against 46-year-old Mohammad Fahad al-Qahtani relate to his human rights activism. They include setting up an unlicensed organization, understood to be the Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association (ACPRA) of which he is a…

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