Pak Sahafat – Amnesty International announced: The Saudi regime is abusing sports to cover up its disastrous and terrible case in the field of human rights.
According to the Saudi Leaks news website: “Felix Jakens”, the head of priority campaigns of Amnesty International and people at risk, asked the FIFA organization to publicly speak about the need for reforms in the field of human rights in Saudi Arabia and not allow the Saudi leaders to abuse Holding the first Women’s World Cup in 2023 should cover its anti-human face.
It is said that Saudi Arabia will probably take charge of this cup, which is scheduled to be held from July 20 to August 20 in Australia and New Zealand. Visit Saudi, the official body of the tourism industry in Saudi Arabia, is going to be officially selected as the largest women’s sports event in the world under the supervision of the 2023 Women’s World Cup.
Jackens added: After signing a contract with Cristiano Ronaldo and buying the Newcastle United club and the LI V golf complex and hosting many high-level sports activities, Saudi Arabia wants to use sports to cover up its dark and black case in the field of human rights violations.
This Amnesty International official said: Women in Saudi Arabia face a terrible discriminatory approach in various issues. The phenomenon of sponsoring sports activities will become more popular in Saudi Arabia due to the countless wealth of Saudis, but without reforms in the field of human rights, in parallel with the aforementioned activities, Saudi Arabia will continue to be accused of abusing sports, and players, coaches, and fans of sports also have to deal with Saudi abuse of sports.
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In this regard, the Australian Football Federation and its New Zealand counterpart issued a joint statement and announced that they are disappointed with Saudi Arabia’s hosting of the Women’s World Cup in 2023.
In this regard, the Saudi army soldiers raided the areas of Al-Qatif and Al-Awamiyeh located in the east of this country last Monday morning, arrested 10 residents of these Shiite areas and transferred them to an unknown place.
Following the beginning of mass protests and demonstrations, especially in the Shiite areas of eastern Saudi Arabia in 2011, to demand equality, social justice and an end to sectarian discrimination and persecution, the Saudi security authorities usually targeted the people of these areas in a planned manner.
In recent years, the people of Eastern Arabia have demonstrated many times in protest against the repressive actions of the Saudi regime and the killing of dozens of protesters in the cities of Al-Awamiyyah and Al-Qatif, but each time they faced severe repression by the Al-Saud military.
Every year, the Saudi government sentences a large number of opponents of Al-Saud to severe punishments and death sentences with the aim of countering freedom of expression and under the pretext of fighting terrorism.
Sheikh Nimr Baqir al-Nimr, a prominent Saudi Shiite cleric and a resident of Al-Qatif, was considered one of the most prominent political prisoners in this country, who was executed in 2014 on charges of criticizing Al-Saud and acting against the country’s national security.