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Quoted: Washington Examiner | “Obama refuses to raise human rights issues with Saudis”
Washington Examiner: Obama refuses to raise human rights issues with Saudis By Joel Gehrke | March 31, 2014 “…It wasn’t just Republicans angry with Obama. Amnesty International accused him of showing hypocrisy on human rights issues. “The president’s silence demonstrates once again that when it comes to human rights, the U.S. holds repressive allies to…
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Quoted: McClatchy News | “Obama honors Saudi woman’s fight against abuse, heads back to Washington”
McClatchy Washington Bureau: Obama honors Saudi woman’s fight against abuse, heads back to Washington By Lesley Clark | March 29, 2014 Sunjeev Bery, Amnesty International’s advocacy director for Middle East and North Africa, said the group was deeply disappointed that Obama didn’t raise human rights issues with the Saudi leader or speak about…
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Quoted: FoxNews.com | Amnesty International says human rights ‘missing in action’ on Obama trip to Saudi Arabia
FoxNews.com: Amnesty International says human rights ‘missing in action’ on Obama trip to Saudi Arabia Published March 28, 2014 Amnesty International is criticizing President Obama for not discussing Saudi Arabia’s human rights record in either private meetings with King Abdullah or meetings with other Saudi officials. A spokesman for the human rights group Sunjeev Bery…
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Protected: Amnesty International USA Urges Obama to Support Human Rights During Trip to Saudi Arabia
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Quoted: ABC News Radio | “Amnesty Int’l Challenges Obama to Bring Female Driver to Saudi Arabia”
ABC News Radio: Amnesty Int’l Challenges Obama to Bring Female Driver to Saudi Arabia By Carmen Cox March 27, 2014 …Amnesty International also weighed in, urging the president to bring along a female Secret Service agent as his driver while in the Kingdom. “President Obama should show his support by bringing a female Secret Service…
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Saudi Arabia & Bahrain: 5 Members of Congress Urge President Obama to Push Saudi Officials to Support Reforms
U.S. Rep Hank Johnson and four other Members of Congress have written a letter to President Obama urging him to push Saudi Arabian officials to be “more constructive” regarding political reform in Bahrain. The core sentence in the letter is the following: Long-term stability in Bahrain can only be achieved through meaningful political reform, and…
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Al-Monitor: “Members press Obama to raise human rights in Saudi Arabia” (Article)
“This is the beginning of an expression of popular concern articulated through the US Congress about that relationship,” predicted Sunjeev Bery, the advocacy director for Middle East and North Africa at Amnesty International USA. “The Saudi Arabian government’s repression is so bad across so many fronts that it has created an environment in Washington, DC,…
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It’s Official: 70 in U.S. Congress Urge President Barack Obama to Back Human Rights in Saudi Arabia
A large, bipartisan group of Members of Congress has sent a formal letter to President Obama calling on him to “publicly address Saudi Arabia’s serious human rights violations” when he visits the country this Friday. Led by Representatives Trent Franks, Jim McGovern, Frank Wolf, and Jackie Speier, the letter is supported by a total of…
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The Numbers Keep Rising: 60 Members of Congress Now Urging President Obama to Support Human Rights in Saudi Arabia
What was 50 has now become 60: The number of Members of Congress signing the letter to President Obama continues to grow. Who is on the list? Representatives Trent Franks, Jim McGovern, Frank Wolf, Jackie Speier, John Lewis, Rush Holt, Robert Aderholt, Trey Gowdy, Jeff Duncan, Peter Roskam, Barbara Lee, Ted Poe, Kerry Bentivolio, James…