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April 20, 2011

Human Rights Watch: International Community Ignores Saudi Crackdown on Dissidents 
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Human Rights Watch is reporting Saudi Arabian authorities have arrested
more than 160 peaceful dissidents since February, but the international
community has largely ignored the crackdown. Over the past month, two
top Obama administration officials—U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert
Gates and National Security Adviser Tom Donilon—visited Riyadh.
Neither said anything about the arrests of peaceful protesters.
Christoph Wilcke of Human Rights Watch said, "As the list of Saudi
political prisoners grows longer, the silence of the U.S. and the E.U.
becomes more deafening."



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