Biden's Empty Call to Reevaluate US-Saudi Relationship

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image US President Joe Biden, center left, and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, center, at a hotel in Saudi Arabia’s city of Jeddah, July 16, 2022. © 2022 Mandel Ngan/AP Photo Following Saudi Arabia’s decision to cut oil production in October, United States President Joe Biden announced there would be consequences for the Saudi government and a need to reevaluate the US-Saudi relationship. But three months later, that relationship seems unchanged. Biden’s unwillingness to genuinely reassess the relationship applies to US human rights policy toward Saudi Arabia as…

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