Saudi Arabia doesn't exactly have an exemplary human rights record. In fact it has a horrible human rights record yet they are members of the United Nations Human Rights Committee.
Al Jazeera America published an article on 3 December about that very poor human rights record unfortunately only those living in America have access to it. Everyone living outside the country receives an error page message after clicking the link to the article. Given that Al Jazeera is funded by the Qatari government which has its only problems concerning the human rights of noncitizens one isn't surprised that access to the article has been restricted to the U.S.
The Qatar-based news network, Al-Jazeera, has prevented an article slamming human rights in Saudi Arabia from being viewed outside the US.
Al Jazeera America published an article on 3 December about that very poor human rights record unfortunately only those living in America have access to it. Everyone living outside the country receives an error page message after clicking the link to the article. Given that Al Jazeera is funded by the Qatari government which has its only problems concerning the human rights of noncitizens one isn't surprised that access to the article has been restricted to the U.S.
The Qatar-based news network, Al-Jazeera, has prevented an article slamming human rights in Saudi Arabia from being viewed outside the US.
The article, titled “Saudi Arabia Uses Terrorism as an Excuse for Human Rights Abuses” and published on Al-Jazeera America’s website on 3 December, cites reports 50 people are intended to be executed for alleged terrorist crimes, injustices in the treatment of Saudi’s minority Shia population and criticises the country’s relationship with the US.
The article is understood to still be available in the US, but when viewed in other countries is replaced with an error page.
A tweet from Al-Jazeera America’s account with the article’s headline, pictured on a Bahraini website, appears to have been deleted, while the Saudi Arabian newspaper Okaz quotes Al-Jazeera's director apologising for the article, The Intercept reports.
The article, written by Arjun Sethi, a human rights lawyer and professor of law at George Town University, has been reprinted by The Intercept.
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