Russia Today: The decision to hold a UN-backed human rights summit in Saudi Arabia in early June, attended by the Human Rights Council’s chief, has sparked an outcry from rights organizations, claiming that the visit gave the Gulf kingdom “false legitimacy.”
The main point of the international summit held in Jeddah June 3-4 was declared to be combating intolerance and violence based on religious belief.
7 shocking facts about Saudi Arabia under ‘modernizing’ reign of King AbdullahThe conference was attended by the Human Right Council president Joachim Rücker, who said in the opening statement that “Religious intolerance and violence committed in the name of religion rank among the most significant human rights challenges of our times.”
Later, Rücker was accused by the Geneva-based human rights campaign group UN Watch of giving the summit “false international legitimacy.”
“It’s bad enough that the oppressive and fundamentalist Saudi monarchy was elected to sit on the UN Human Rights Council,” The Independent cited UN Watch executive director, Hillel Neuer, as saying.
UNHRC & NGO reps smile at #Saudi “religious freedom” conf as regime jails Raif Badawi, oppresses women, bombs Yemen. pic.twitter.com/XXTf2VygNP
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) June 5, 2015
Saudi Arabia is one of the few absolute monarchies left in the world. There is no legal code in the country, leaving it to individual judges to set the punishment for a crime in accordance with their interpretation of Islamic doctrine.
Categories: Arab World, Asia, Behaviour, Double Standard, Hypocrisy, Saudi Arabia, Show Off, Treachery
I do admit that it sounds a Bit Strange that Saudis should host a Human Righs Event. But then who should? Switzerland who banned Minaretts? Americans who supply terrorists?
Rafiq Sahib! Your comments Ha Ha Ha Very true
Even Norway cannot now morally hold such things.
Only Jama’at can do it proudly.