PETITION TO BAN KI-MOON BEING CIRCULATED

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https://www.change.org/p/ban-ki-moo...-lg-share_petition-custom_msg#petition-letter
Remove Saudi Arabia from the UN Panel on Human Rights

Donald Lawrie Glasgow, United Kingdom

We demand that Saudi Arabia be removed from any positions of influence or decision making in the United Nation Council on human rights until such times as they can demonstrate adherence to the spirit and principles of fundamental human rights.

It is widely recognised globally and from many highly respected and independent human rights organisations that there are systematic and widespread abuses of human rights in Saudi Arabia including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International and many others.

We think and very strongly feel that any position of influence that Saudi Arabia has on the United Nations in relation to human rights and the abuse thereof calls in to question the legitimacy and efficacy of the organisation and diminishes the pursuit of freedom, tolerance and justice globally.

LETTER TO
Ban Ki-Moon
Jan Egeland

 

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After Beheading 100 People This Year, Saudi Arabia Joins U.N. Human Rights Council With U.S. Support
BY JUSTIN SALHANI SEP 24, 2015 11:37AM

CREDIT: AP PHOTO/EVAN VUCCI

President Barack Obama, right, meets with King Salman of Saudi Arabia in the Oval Office of the White House, on Friday, Sept. 4, 2015, in Washington.


The State Department has welcomed news that Saudi Arabia will head a U.N. Human Rights Council panel. Criticism has regularly been levelled at Saudi Arabia by human rights groups due to perennial human rights violations.

Saudi Arabia beheaded over 100 people this year through June. That’s already more than they beheaded in the entirety of 2014. The regime there is also known for its use of floggings and implementation of the death penalty against people convicted as minors. A group of U.N. experts called on Saudi Arabia as recently as this week to spare the nephew of a prominent Shia cleric from beheading and crucifixion. Furthermore, Saudi Arabia is regularly the target of international rights groups’ critiques due to their complete disregard for international human rights standards on free speech, freedom of religion, and a plethora of other violations.

“Saudi Arabia … systematically discriminates against Muslim religious minorities, notably Twelver Shia and Ismailis,” a Human Rights Watch (HRW) 2015 report on Saudi Arabia reads. This development has been widely denounced by figures who see the appointment as a way for Saudi Arabia to justify their current practices.

“[The appointment] is like a green light to start flogging Raif Badawi again!” Ensaf Haidar, the wife of Badawi said according to AJ+. Badawi, who helped found an internet discussion channel to discuss religion and politics, was sentenced to 1,000 lashes earlier this year for insulting Islam. Rights groups have rallied to Badawi’s defense but Saudi Arabia has still given him at least 50 lashes to date.

Another case of criminal punishment has caught the world’s attention as of late and this case has come to light almost synonymously with the appointment of Faisal bin Hassan Trad, Saudi Arabia’s ambassador at the UN in Geneva, to the human rights panel.

Ali-al Nimr, now 21, was arrested at 17-years-old for participating in a protest calling for social and political reforms in Saudi Arabia’s Qatif province. The area is largely inhabited by Shia Muslims, a minority that faces harsher penalties and less rights than the Sunni majority.

After his arrest, Nimr was convicted of belonging to a terror cell, attacking police with Molotov cocktails, incitement, and stoking sectarianism, CNN reported.

“Mr. al-Nimr did not receive a fair trial and his lawyer was not allowed to properly assist him and was prevented from accessing the case file,” independent experts told the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

In a recent interview, State Department deputy spokesman Mark Toner seemed to mangle his words when asked about Nirm’s case.

“I’m not aware of the trial that you — or the verdict — death sentence,” Toner told AP’s Matt Lee. Toner followed up by saying that the U.S. and Saudi Arabia share close ties and maintain an active dialogue and that he hoped their involvement on the Human Rights Council panel would help encourage introspection.

Two other minors, also arrested in 2012 at the Qatif protests have also been sentenced to death and are at risk of imminent execution.

“It is scandalous,” U.N. Watch executive director Hillel Neuer, told CNN. “Petro-dollars and politics have trumped human rights.”

 

[Dubious]

After Beheading 100 People This Year, Saudi Arabia Joins U.N. Human Rights Council With U.S. Support
BY JUSTIN SALHANI SEP 24, 2015 11:37AM

CREDIT: AP PHOTO/EVAN VUCCI

President Barack Obama, right, meets with King Salman of Saudi Arabia in the Oval Office of the White House, on Friday, Sept. 4, 2015, in Washington.


The State Department has welcomed news that Saudi Arabia will head a U.N. Human Rights Council panel. Criticism has regularly been levelled at Saudi Arabia by human rights groups due to perennial human rights violations.

Saudi Arabia beheaded over 100 people this year through June. That’s already more than they beheaded in the entirety of 2014. The regime there is also known for its use of floggings and implementation of the death penalty against people convicted as minors. A group of U.N. experts called on Saudi Arabia as recently as this week to spare the nephew of a prominent Shia cleric from beheading and crucifixion. Furthermore, Saudi Arabia is regularly the target of international rights groups’ critiques due to their complete disregard for international human rights standards on free speech, freedom of religion, and a plethora of other violations.

“Saudi Arabia … systematically discriminates against Muslim religious minorities, notably Twelver Shia and Ismailis,” a Human Rights Watch (HRW) 2015 report on Saudi Arabia reads. This development has been widely denounced by figures who see the appointment as a way for Saudi Arabia to justify their current practices.

“[The appointment] is like a green light to start flogging Raif Badawi again!” Ensaf Haidar, the wife of Badawi said according to AJ+. Badawi, who helped found an internet discussion channel to discuss religion and politics, was sentenced to 1,000 lashes earlier this year for insulting Islam. Rights groups have rallied to Badawi’s defense but Saudi Arabia has still given him at least 50 lashes to date.

Another case of criminal punishment has caught the world’s attention as of late and this case has come to light almost synonymously with the appointment of Faisal bin Hassan Trad, Saudi Arabia’s ambassador at the UN in Geneva, to the human rights panel.

Ali-al Nimr, now 21, was arrested at 17-years-old for participating in a protest calling for social and political reforms in Saudi Arabia’s Qatif province. The area is largely inhabited by Shia Muslims, a minority that faces harsher penalties and less rights than the Sunni majority.

After his arrest, Nimr was convicted of belonging to a terror cell, attacking police with Molotov cocktails, incitement, and stoking sectarianism, CNN reported.

“Mr. al-Nimr did not receive a fair trial and his lawyer was not allowed to properly assist him and was prevented from accessing the case file,” independent experts told the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

In a recent interview, State Department deputy spokesman Mark Toner seemed to mangle his words when asked about Nirm’s case.

“I’m not aware of the trial that you — or the verdict — death sentence,” Toner told AP’s Matt Lee. Toner followed up by saying that the U.S. and Saudi Arabia share close ties and maintain an active dialogue and that he hoped their involvement on the Human Rights Council panel would help encourage introspection.

Two other minors, also arrested in 2012 at the Qatif protests have also been sentenced to death and are at risk of imminent execution.

“It is scandalous,” U.N. Watch executive director Hillel Neuer, told CNN. “Petro-dollars and politics have trumped human rights.”

Those crying should welcome/ adopt and take as a citizen every criminal Saudi wishes to punish in the way their land sees fit....

 

[Ceylal]

Those crying should welcome/ adopt and take as a citizen every criminal Saudi wishes to punish in the way their land sees fit....

You lost me there, can you clarify, it start getting dark here

 

[Dubious]

You lost me there, can you clarify, it start getting dark here

Well those who were beheaded (at least 90%) were criminals...If anyone is having a problem with that then it is double standards as Americans killed people and criminals in East post 9/11.....Innocents also lost their lives and till today- more than a decade has gone and many have been killed and it has tilted to region into chaos....Try voicing against that first!

2ndly, if you have no problem America coming half way across the globe to kill some people (civilians included) on other people's soil....then how can you possibly have a problem with Saudi giving punishment to their people on their soil?

 

[lighthouse]

Ban ki moon should do the world a favour,shut down the united nation organization and move back to south korea.

His performance is zero when it comes to genocide and ethnic cleansing of muslims whether it be in Kashmir,Rohingya(Burma) and Palestine also George bush lying about chemical weapons and invading Iraq and previously invading Afghanistan.
If you lie and invade a country and kill millions, No action???were are the chemical weapons?

United Nations was a party in the killing of Bosnian muslims.Recall the incident.It was all planned.

If there is a war going on in Somalia, then as a responsible member of United Nations you need to send soldiers and it is your war going on in Somalia but the moment you call them to intervene in genocide of Kashmiri muslims then all of a sudden it becomes a bilateral dispute between two nations that should be resolved by peaceful talks.

This is doctrine of distorted baighairati.

 

[chhota bheem]

Well those who were beheaded (at least 90%) were criminals...If anyone is having a problem with that then it is double standards as Americans killed people and criminals in East post 9/11.....Innocents also lost their lives and till today- more than a decade has gone and many have been killed and it has tilted to region into chaos....Try voicing against that first!

2ndly, if you have no problem America coming half way across the globe to kill some people (civilians included) on other people's soil....then how can you possibly have a problem with Saudi giving punishment to their people on their soil?

Will not Pakistan take back the people who where given death sentence for drug smuggling from KSA.

I would if they are Indian.

 

[Dubious]

for drug smuggling

He broke a law plus I dont side with anything to do with drugs unless it is medication for the poor

 

[lighthouse]

The guy who is behind all this campaign hillel neuer of united nations has spark of baighairati/shamelessness in his eyes

 

[chhota bheem]

He broke a law plus I dont side with anything to do with drugs unless it is medication for the poor

Ok let me try to put it with an example so that you might understand.

Imagine you went to KSA ,you packed your bags your self and check in the airport in some other country and while checking in you handover the luggage ,and from the time you hand over the luggage to the the you come out of the KSA airport you cannot control what happens with your luggage ,if some loader drops in a packet of cocaine in the side pocket of your luggage and you are cought ,then you get death sentence,there is nothing much you can do to stop it unless you have big connections in KSA.

 

[Dubious]

,if some loader drops in a packet of cocaine

Big if....smaller if is :

IF you were responsible for smuggling it in...

unless you have big connections in KSA.

the way out in EVERY country...None is immune to it!

 

[Tiger Genie]

Well those who were beheaded (at least 90%) were criminals...If anyone is having a problem with that then it is double standards as Americans killed people and criminals in East post 9/11.....Innocents also lost their lives and till today- more than a decade has gone and many have been killed and it has tilted to region into chaos....Try voicing against that first!

2ndly, if you have no problem America coming half way across the globe to kill some people (civilians included) on other people's soil....then how can you possibly have a problem with Saudi giving punishment to their people on their soil?

please! America did not 'come half way across to kill people'. They came to defend against terrorists who if you remember reached into American soil & air space and perpetrated 9/11. I hope you are not one of those that claim 9/11 was a mossad conspiracy.

 

[Zibago]

Public beheading is wrong

 

[Dubious]

to defend against terrorists who if you remember reached into American soil & air space and perpetrated 9/11. I hope you are not one of those that claim 9/11 was a mossad conspiracy.

Well then if you cant say anything wrong about false accusations/ mistake (Iraq) [something even Americans can say- links below] then I dont expect you to be able to say much about other people (punishing against a crime "on their land" -drug trafficking)

Before someone asks me for proof: GOP Agrees Bush Was Wrong to Invade Iraq, Now What? - US News
Iraq: The Biggest Mistake In American Military History

 

[Tiger Genie]

Ok let me try to put it with an example so that you might understand.

Imagine you went to KSA ,you packed your bags your self and check in the airport in some other country and while checking in you handover the luggage ,and from the time you hand over the luggage to the the you come out of the KSA airport you cannot control what happens with your luggage ,if some loader drops in a packet of cocaine in the side pocket of your luggage and you are cought ,then you get death sentence,there is nothing much you can do to stop it unless you have big connections in KSA.

this would have been a far fetched argument until a decade ago but unfortunately such cases of airport handlers and plane crews getting involved such smuggling schemes have come to light (I thing the latest was a delta airline crew if I remember right), so yup agreed you have a very valid point.