Opinion | Shedding Any Last Illusions About the Saudis - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/18/opinion/saudi-arabia-crown-prince-jamal-khashoggi.html
Saudi Arabia, an absolute monarchy with a particularly stern form of Islam, has always been high on the list of human-rights violators. But with the ascent of Prince Mohammed’s father, King Salman, to the throne in January 2015, and with Prince Mohammed’s subsequent emergence as the heir and the power behind the throne, the pace of arrests, repression and executions rose to levels unseen in two decades.
According to a Saudi group that tracks political prisoners, Prisoners of Conscience, more than 2,600 Saudi dissidents — including scientists, writers, lawyers and women’s rights campaigners — were locked up in the kingdom while the crown prince was building his image abroad as a reformer. His celebrated decision to let women drive, in the best known example, was accompanied by the imprisonment of the women who had campaigned for the right.
Promis, juré : quand Trump sera parti, les USA ne soutiendront plus cette terrible dictature en #arabie_saoudite !
