{"id":4287,"date":"2011-12-16T19:26:55","date_gmt":"2011-12-17T02:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=4287"},"modified":"2011-12-16T19:26:55","modified_gmt":"2011-12-17T02:26:55","slug":"saudi-government-prepares-for-more-deplorable-human-rights-abuses-against-backdrop-of-us-weapons-sales-and-deliveries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=4287","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Government prepares for more deplorable Human Rights abuses, against backdrop of US weapons sales and deliveries"},"content":{"rendered":"

Letter to the Saudi Arabian Human Rights Commissioner<\/strong>
\nOn the Case of ‘Amir ‘Iyada – December 16, 2011 – by Human Rights Watch<\/p>\n

To: Dr. Bandar al-\u2018Iban
\nChairman Human Rights Commission
\nRiyadh \u2013 Kingdom of Saudi Arabia<\/p>\n

Your Excellency,<\/p>\n

Human Rights Watch urges you to intervene in the case of \u2018Amir \u2018Iyada, and five other co-defendants, sentenced to have their right hands and left feet cut off. Such a sentence should not be carried out in any circumstances, since it constitutes torture, in violation of the kingdom\u2019s international human rights obligations. Moreover, in this case, allegedly grave violations of the defendant\u2019s right to a fair trial cast serious doubt on whether the man sentenced to undergo this punishment is guilty as charged.<\/p>\n

We ask you to assign \u2018Iyada and the others a competent lawyer, as the Commission has done in other cases, to request a retrial of \u2018Iyada and his five co-defendants, and to publicly denounce the punishment imposed as unlawful torture. We also ask you to regularly and frequently visit \u2018Iyada and the other defendants in Malaz prison, to ensure that they suffer no adverse consequences from the publicity given their case.<\/p>\n

The charter of the Human Rights Commission, a government ministry, tasks it with \u201creceiving complaints on matters of human rights, verifying them, and subsequently taking the necessary action required\u201d (art. 5.7.) as well as \u201cto ascertain that the respective government entities have complied fully with the rules and regulations related to human rights practice\u201d (art. 5.1.), \u201cto pursue government agencies to ascertain its compliance on international treaties [sic]\u201d (art.5.6.), and gives it the right to visit places of detention (art. 5.6.).
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\nDetails of the Case<\/strong><\/p>\n

On January 25, 2011, Riyadh\u2019s General Court sentenced \u2018Iyada and five other defendants to have their right hand and left leg amputated for participating in the crime that Sharia legal scholars call hiraba, or armed (highway) robbery. The court found that on the morning of October 9, 2010, the defendants cornered three employees of the Tamimi supermarket on Riyadh\u2019s King Fahd Road as they were transporting the week\u2019s proceeds of SAR4 million (about US$1.07 million) in the boot of their car, that they threatened the employees with a gun, and that they took the money from them. No one was physically harmed.<\/p>\n

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Letter to the Saudi Arabian Human Rights Commissioner On the Case of ‘Amir ‘Iyada – December 16, 2011 – by Human Rights Watch To: Dr. Bandar al-\u2018Iban Chairman Human Rights Commission Riyadh \u2013 Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Your Excellency, Human Rights Watch urges you to intervene in the case of \u2018Amir \u2018Iyada, and five other more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[2203],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}