Pak Sahafat – The Al Saud regime continues to oppress and harass its citizens in the shadow of international silence and the support of Western countries and tops the list of human rights violators in the world.
According to Pak Sahafat News Agency, Human Rights Watch has included Saudi Arabia in the list of 10 countries that violate human rights around the world in 2022.
The human rights organization highlighted the mass execution of 81 people in Saudi Arabia.
According to the report of the aforementioned organization, the Saudi authorities executed 81 people on March 12, 2022, which was the largest mass execution in recent years despite international warnings. After this incident, many families learned about the execution of their loved ones through the media.
“Mohammed bin Salman”, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, after carrying out the biggest massacre in the history of Saudi Arabia, granted himself the position of prime minister to avoid any prosecution in foreign courts.
According to the report of the European Saudi Human Rights Organization, Mohammed bin Salman is actually responsible for the painful reality of human rights in this country. In the past years, his actions show the violation of the most basic principles of human rights in Saudi Arabia.
This is while dozens of people are at risk of execution in Al Saud prisons.
The German channel “DW” also emphasized the continuation of widespread violations of women’s rights in Saudi Arabia despite the government’s alleged reforms.
The network stated that Saudi authorities continue to discriminate against women as second-class citizens with an unchanging autocratic guardianship system.
According to this report, some of the changes made in the form of Mohammed bin Salman’s plan known as “Vision” for the so-called “social and economic reforms” have led to the deterioration of the condition of women.
Lina al-Hathloul, the sister of Saudi activist Lojin al-Hathloul, as the head of communications and monitoring at the human rights organization Al-Qast, said: “Repression still exists in Saudi Arabia.”
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He further added: The development of women’s rights in the past four years has not come close to what Saudi women really want. We want to live without fear in Saudi Arabia and be able to demand our rights.
According to the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Index in 2019, Saudi Arabia ranks lowest in the world. According to this index, despite the rapid increase in female education rates and improved access to health care, women’s participation in the labor market is still very low.
According to Deutsche Welle, some countries are actively suppressing women’s rights by persecuting women’s rights activists. Nowhere in the world is this more evident than in Saudi Arabia, where authorities arrest women’s rights activists arbitrarily and without accountability.
The legal guardianship of women by men to varying degrees is still practiced in Saudi Arabia and includes important aspects of women’s lives. The guardianship of men over women severely limits the freedom and independence of women to carry out their activities and legal actions, and in many cases such as marriage, divorce, custody of children, ownership and control of property, decision-making about family issues, education and employment, and even freedom from prison in flow
Violence against women is seen in various forms in Saudi society, including violence in the family, violence in public areas, violence against female migrant workers, etc. Physical violence, acts of violence, sexual harassment and insults and slander are only some of the dimensions of these violence.
Saudi Arabia continuously violates women’s rights by harassing and torturing activists and arbitrarily arresting them and trying them without trial. Even many women are subjected to various tortures and sexual harassment in Al Saud prisons.
In spite of the claim of reforms in the field of women’s rights, the Saudi authorities sentenced “Salmi al-Shahab” to 34 years in prison in August 2022 for criticizing her on a tweet. Also, 45 years of imprisonment was issued against Noura Bint Saeed Al Qahtani. Both Saudi activists were sentenced to these long sentences for posting tweets on their accounts.
In recent years, Western countries, especially the United States, have claimed to hold Saudi Arabia accountable for human rights violations, but in 2022, the absurdity of these claims became more and more apparent.
Many observers believe that the persecution of critics, dissidents, writers and hundreds of people in Saudi Arabia will increase in the new year of 2023, and this new year will be a year full of sad tragedy. Despite the fact that Mohammed bin Salman silences any dissenting voice and seeks to improve his image in the international community at great expense, this issue can only be improved by the voices of the opposition, critics, and human rights activists.
Saudi Arabia arbitrarily uses the death penalty against minors, freedom of speech prisoners, protesters, and critics, while these sentences are completely unjust and often accompanied by torture and ill-treatment. The unfairness of the judicial system in Saudi Arabia, in addition to preventing any civil society activity, prevents the response to the continuation of arbitrary executions.
Over the past years, numerous reports of extrajudicial executions, torture, arbitrary arrests, forced disappearances, arrests of political and human rights activists, and suppression of the legitimate demands of religious minorities inside Saudi Arabia have leaked out.
Many international human rights organizations have expressed concern that a loophole in Saudi Arabia’s laws allows judges to continue issuing the death penalty to juveniles.
Saudi Arabia was a repressive country before the crown prince of Mohammed bin Salman; But after he came to power, the repression has intensified in an unprecedented way, so that anyone who criticizes the government or defends his rights is arrested and subjected to severe torture and long imprisonment.