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Despite the cherry picking of subjects in your post, in 15 minutes... Saudis @ NYT from a selection of recent articles: "Trump has made it clear he is not wor
by ethbro 10y ago
Despite the cherry picking of subjects in your post, in 15 minutes...
Saudis @ NYT from a selection of recent articles:
"Trump has made it clear he is not worried about supporting human rights or freedom; [...] that all those difficult questions about gender equality and the like are going to be off the table for the next four years, and that Iran is very much on the table,” Mr. Riedel said." https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/03/14/world/middleeast/mohammed-bin-salman-saudi-arabia-trump.html https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/03/14/world/middleeast/moham...
"The sale of oil provides billions of dollars in annual allowances, public sector sinecures and perks for royals, the wealthiest of whom own French chateaus and Saudi palaces, stash money in Swiss bank accounts, wear couture dresses under their abayas and frolic on some of the world’s biggest yachts out of sight of commoners." https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/03/01/world/middleeast/saudi-king-indonesia-wealth.html https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/03/01/world/middleeast/saudi... and https://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/12/27/world/middleeast/saudi-royal-family-money.html https://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/12/27/world/middleeast/saudi...
"Activists in the country have long protested its patriarchal society that essentially prohibits women from traveling, marrying or attending college without permission from a male relative, who is called their guardian." https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/01/05/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-women-video.html https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/01/05/world/middleeast/saudi...
"Western human rights organizations criticized both the trial and the sentences, saying that the accused were denied proper legal representation, charged over activities that should not be crimes and pressed into signing “confessions” that were used against them." https://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/12/06/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-iran-spying-trial.html https://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/12/06/world/middleeast/saudi...