GENEVA (2 January 2018) – Top United Nations human rights experts* have deplored Saudi Arabia’s continued use of counter-terrorism and security-related laws against human rights defenders, urging it to end the repression and release all those detained for peacefully exercising their rights. Religious figures, writers, journalists, academics and civic activists are being targeted, along with members of the banned Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association (ACPRA), in a “worrying pattern of widespread and systematic arbitrary arrests and detention”, the experts said.
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Source: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Originally published 02 January 2018. This page reproduces only a short excerpt; the complete text remains on the official source website.
