Saudi Arabia moves to stamp out new human rights NGO

Headline Title:  Saudi Arabia moves to stamp out new human rights NGO 01 May 2013 Four founding members of a nascent human rights group in Saudi Arabia have been interrogated and intimidated in their attempt to get their organization off the ground, Amnesty International said. In recent days, the four men who founded the independent Union for Human Rights in late March have been called in for questioning by the Saudi Arabian authorities and threatened with further interrogation. They remain at risk of being detained at any time.  Abdullah Modhi al-Attawi, Mohammad Aeid al-Otaibi,…

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