http://xrdarabia.org/2006/12/19/about-those-human-rights-watch-complaints/ Informed comment and commentary about Saudi Arabia, reform, and its relations with the US Tue, 22 May 2012 20:17:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://xrdarabia.org/2006/12/19/about-those-human-rights-watch-complaints/comment-page-1/#comment-2161 Global Voices Online Sat, 23 Dec 2006 08:59:41 +0000 http://xrdarabia.org/?p=2467#comment-2161 [...] According to Rasheed’s post, “Human Rights Watch issued a press statement yesterday [December 19th] about how their delegation that was here in the Kingdom last week were denied access to many detention facilities that they had wanted to visit here [in Saudi Arabia].” Crossroads Arabia, however, sheds some light on other claims regarding the visit; according to an article on the Saudi Gazette, HRW “was able to visit prisons.” Aya thinks that they were -genuinely- denied access to prison and detention facilities. “I don’t think that HRW actually expected to be granted full access to the country, for God's sake, even its ‘contact us’ page is blocked in the kingdom,” she says. [...] [...] According to Rasheed’s post, “Human Rights Watch issued a press statement yesterday [December 19th] about how their delegation that was here in the Kingdom last week were denied access to many detention facilities that they had wanted to visit here [in Saudi Arabia].” Crossroads Arabia, however, sheds some light on other claims regarding the visit; according to an article on the Saudi Gazette, HRW “was able to visit prisons.” Aya thinks that they were -genuinely- denied access to prison and detention facilities. “I don’t think that HRW actually expected to be granted full access to the country, for God’s sake, even its ‘contact us’ page is blocked in the kingdom,” she says. [...]

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