Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia, CDHR, Washington DC

February 29, 2020

CDHR’s Analysis of Saudi Domestic and External Affairs

 

Saudi Arabia: Repression Cloaked in Reforms

CDHR Commentary: As this report illustrates, the Saudi  regime’s highly acclaimed social initiatives were not intended to pave the way for a better and freer life, free of fear and suppression, but to attract foreign investors, appease and silence critics and deflect the Saudi people’s attention from focussing on their economic hardships and political repression. In reality, social and political repression has not only remained severe, but amplified since the ascendance of King Salman and his sons to power in January 2015. Read full analysis: www.cdhr.info

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-51597561

 

Saudi Arabia: Chosen for Empowerment of Arab Women?

CDHR Commentary:  “Riyadh is set to cement itself as a champion of women as the 39th session of the Arab Women’s Committee declares the Saudi city as the Capital of Arab Women 2020.”

This choice is ironic, but not surprising, given the Saudi oligarchy’s financial and religious influence on the regimes, societies and religious establishments that the Arab Women’s Committee represents. Committee members are privileged women who represent their respective autocratic regimes’ domestic policies, especially as they relate to women, ethnic groups and religious minorities.  Read full analysis: www.cdhr.info

https://women-s.net/muslim-womens-rights-sharia-law/

 

Saudi Arabia Asserts its Protection, Support of Women’s Rights

Commentary by Jumana Aljohni, Member of CDHR Board of Directors

Saudi Arabia continues to claim social reforms unleashed by Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, which focus on women’s rights. As native Saudis living abroad, we keenly follow the news with fainted hope, skepticism and a critical eye. We believe it is an important topic that warrants our attention, but it is crucial to maintain intellectual integrity, which is arrived at through an open, accurate and objective independent thought process. All new amendments geared towards women are supposed to bring changes to many aspects of life in the conservative kingdom. Read full analysis: www.cdhr.info

https://aawsat.com/english/home/article/2007761/saudi-arabia-asserts-its-protection-support-women%E2%80%99s-rights

 

Does this Jew Have the Right to Visit His Birthplace in Saudi Arabia?

CDHR Commentary: As this video displays (in Arabic) Dawy Bin Yousef Shukr, a Jew born and raised in Najran, Saudi Arabia, is imploring the Saudi oligarchs to facilitate a journey for him to visit his childhood villages, with which this advocate for human rights and democratic reforms in Saudi Arabia is familiar. As in many Arab and Muslim countries, hundreds of thousands of Jews were either evicted or had to leave their homelands after the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948.

Read full analysis: www.cdhr.info

https://twitter.com/almakramy/status/1222993278435569664
https://mobile.twitter.com/almakramy/status/1222993278435569664?s=09

 

Touring Auschwitz: Moral Imperative or Tactical Expediency?

CDHR Commentary: After 75 years of denying the annihilation of 6 million Jews, a constellation of governments’ carefully hand-picked Muslim clerics, led by the chief of the Saudi created and financed Muslim World League, visited Auschwitz and other butchery sites where millions of innocent people were rounded up, starved, gunned down and cremated for no reasons other than their beliefs, lifestyles and ethnicities. The leading cleric of the delegation, Moham med Al-Issa chairs the World Muslim League, created in 1962 by the Saudi rulers to legitimize their callous system, export the anti-non-Muslim Wahhabi doctrine and to increase their influence worldwide. Read full analysis: www.cdhr.info

https://www.arabbarometer.org/2019/12/arabs-are-losing-faith-in-religious-parties-and-leaders/

 

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