Saudi Arabia: Repressive Site for Dakar Rally

Expand A contestant in the 2013 Dakar Rally © 2013 Wikicommons (Paris) – The Amaury Sport Organisation should use its decision to move the Dakar Rally to Saudi Arabia to denounce the persecution of women’s rights advocates in the country, Human Rights Watch, MENA Rights Group, and 11 other international human rights organizations said today. The 2020 Dakar Rally – formerly known as the Paris-Dakar Rally – will begin on January 5, 2020, in Jeddah, and finish on January 17, 2020, 9,000 kilometers later, in Al-Qiddiya. “The Amaury Sport Organisation and race drivers at the Dakar Rally should…

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