Saudi Arabia activist sentenced to 11 years for 'support' of women's rights

Re:Saudi Arabia activist sentenced to 11 years for 'support'... by aprilthird2021 on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @07:20PM (#40230819)

I agree. The US has way too many terrible allies we should never be supporting. After they hacksawed the journalist who was living in exile in America and working for the Washington Post (whose children are American citizens), that was the US' chance to cut ties and once it passed, I started to think they'll probably never cut ties...

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Re:Saudi Arabia activist sentenced to 11 years for 'support'... by bryanlarsen on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @07:52PM (#40231087)

I'd like to hope that the Biden administration would respond differently to the Khashoggi execution than the Trump administration did.

But I'm fairly sure that's false hope.

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Re:Saudi Arabia activist sentenced to 11 years for 'support'... by aprilthird2021 on Thursday May 02, 2024 @10:16AM (#40236578)

The same Biden admin who is not sanctioning an IDF unit that killed and tortured and elderly American citizen in the West Bank pre Oct. 7? No, they wouldn't do anything differently for sure.

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Re:Saudi Arabia activist sentenced to 11 years for 'support'... by throwitaway222 on Thursday May 02, 2024 @01:03PM (#40238538)

Fist bump

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Re:Saudi Arabia activist sentenced to 11 years for 'support'... by tdeck on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @07:56PM (#40231128)

Unfortunately US foreign policy is even less responsive to voter sentiment than domestic policy (and that's already quite a low bar).

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