Sarah Leah Whitson Profile picture
Executive Director of DAWN @dawnmenaorg Formerly ED of MENA Division at Human Rights Watch

Aug 11, 2020, 8 tweets

I wonder if @ColoradoBRT members got to ask @rbalsaud why her government has kidnapped two #Saudi children when they hosted her at their PR boondoggle “roundtable” last month?

Take a look at the @ColoradoBRT board members -weapons company & businesses who are making bucks w #Saudi while they whitewash its crimes by inviting its ambassador to chitchat in #Colorado - yes talking bout you #DavidEddy @Boeing @RRobinetteCO @ATT @chschmidt5 @Deloitte

#GayleDedinger @CAP_Logistics did you have a chance to ask @rbalsaud where her government hid Jamal’s body after they chopped it up #JamalKhashoggi

#PeterMoore you’re a lawyer, general counsel of @ColoradoBRT #COBRTInnerCircle can you share your legal opinion on the lawfulness of #Saudi holding children of a wanted person hostage to force him to return?

@DrBeckyT you’re on the board of @ColoradoBRT but also president of @CSUGlobal and the Colorado Women’s Forum - what say you to @rbalsaud re Saudi government jailing and torture of women’s rights activists like #LoujainAlHathloul - did that come up during your canapés?

I could go on w board reps from @Apple #scotthughes @Chase @Chrisdjensen59 @rrjohns @IBM #garynuss #jacobsengineering #timshepard @LockheedMartin #rebeccakersting - I get you folks in business feel no obligation to do good but take some damn responsibility for doing HARM

But really @CUMarkKennedy what’s your excuse as a leader of a university to host @rbalsaud without, I make a fat bet, taking her to task one iota for jailing critical thinkers, bombing of #Yemen universities, schools and hospitals? Does your faculty know? @cu_sak @CUSystem

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