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What happened to prominent journalist #JamalKhashoggi while he was abroad, has to make you ask what happens to #Saudis who aren’t prominent inside the kingdom and away from public scrutiny. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
“Talking costs you dearly now,” one Saudi academic said in August after declining to meet with a Bloomberg News reporter. #Saudi
The number of asylum-seekers from #Saudi Arabia with pending cases has more than doubled since Crown Prince Mohamed Bin Salman began rise to power: from 575 in 2015—the year MBS publicly began his rise to power—to 1,256 in 2017, according to the UN.
And because not enough reporters or analysts or newly-minted experts on #Saudi Arabia remember this: there are feminists and women’s rights activists jailed, some incommunicado, since May by Crown Prince Mohamed Bin Salman. Ask about them! Where are they? nytimes.com/2018/06/18/opi…
And remember: Five Shi’a human rights activists are on trial in #Saudi Arabia, including Israa al-Ghomgham, who would be the first female human rights activist to face capital punishment. Their next court appearance was supposed to be Oct. 28 theguardian.com/world/2018/aug…
Remember #Saudi lawyer @WaleedAbulkhair who was sentenced to 15yrs in prison & 15yr travel ban to be applied after release from jail, for calling for reforms, release of political prisoners, women's rights. His wife Samar Badawi is among jailed feminists cnn.com/2014/07/06/wor…
Remember jailed #Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, brother of Samar Badawi (a jailed feminist) and brother-in-law of Waleed Abulkhair. Raif received the first 50 out of 1000 lashes on 9 January 2015 for setting up a website focused on social and political debate. amnestyusa.org/press-releases…
Remember @azizayousef, jailed in May as part of Crown Prince Mohamed Bin Salman’s unprecedented crackdown on feminists and women’s rights activists
#StandwithSaudiFeminists
Remember @Saudiwoman, jailed in May as part of Crown Prince Mohamed Bin Salman’s unprecedented crackdown on feminists and women’s rights activists
#StandwithSaudiFeminists
Remember @LoujainHathloul, jailed in May as part of Crown Prince Mohamed Bin Salman’s unprecedented crackdown on feminists and women’s rights activists
#StandwithSaudiFeminists
And remember all whose names we don’t know who are held in the jails of the #Saudi absolute monarchy.
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“#Thai authorities will allow 18-year-old Rahaf Alqunun into the country while the UNHCR processes her case after agency representatives were allowed to meet with her late Monday afternoon, according to Lt. Gen. Surachate Hakparn, immigration bureau chief” khaosodenglish.com/featured/2019/…
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He said that UNHCR had taken #RahafAlqunun from the airport to other accommodations in #Bangkok and it will take about five days to find a country to accept her.“ #SaveRahaf
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Translation of tweets from the #Saudi woman trying to flee into asylum who said she is being held at #Bangkok airport: “I am the girl who escaped #Kuwait to #Thailand. My life is in real danger if I am forced to return to #Saudi Arabia.”
“My name is Rahaf Mohamed. I will publish my full name publicly if my family and the #Saudi embassy and the #Kuwaiti embassy man don’t stop chasing me”
“I am 20 years old and I should be able to live alone, freely, independent of anyone who does not respect my dignity and who doesn’t respect me as a woman.”
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“And when your son looks at you and says ‘Mama look you won. Bullies don’t win.’ And I said ‘Baby, they don’t. Because we’re gonna go in there, we’re gonna impeach the motherfucker.’” - Rep. Rashida Tlaib
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“People are like, ‘Rashida, maybe you should put the bullhorn away.’ No! ‘Maybe you shouldn’t wear those gym shoes everywhere.’...I say fuck that.” h/t @rerutled #WhyIsayFuck
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Extra-judicial killings of people of color (drone strikes that kill innocent people, for example) without due process are modern lynchings, it has been argued (books.google.com/books?id=ET1KD…) - we’ve processed thousands of those, away from public scrutiny.
2. Drone strikes have been sold on the claim that they’re ‘precise’…but result in the deaths of 28 unknown people, including women and children, for every ‘bad guy’ targeted. Some 24 men targeted in Pakistan resulted in the death of **874 people**. amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/n…
Saudis are unlikely to extradite any "suspects" in Khashoggi murder to Turkey, and US will back this. Imagine if Pakistan sought extradition of US officials responsible for drone strikes that "accidentally" killed 850 people beyond the intended targets. cnn.com/2018/10/27/mid…
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#JamalKhashoggi questions about the “body double”—
1. Why wait until 10/20 to release that info? If the cover story was that Khashoggi left, why not say so by 10/6 or so?

2. Why is the footage selective?

3. The 2 men don’t look alike. The shoes don’t match.

THINK! #hoax
More questions about #JamalKhashoggi

1. MBS knows him - called him “Jamal”...y priority kill?

2. Why aren’t any other suspects or plots being considered? All of a sudden we trust Turkey?

3. He is friend of Muslim Brotherhood. Not hero!
Yet more questions about #JamalKhashoggi

1. Are the Saudis so incompetent their body doubles wear mismatched shoes?

2. Are they so incompetent they kill in broad daylight?

3. They couldn’t have gotten to him in the US????

THINK!!!!
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Just breaking.... Trump has to do more than 'be concerned'. Country over financial friendships, @realDonaldTrump. #ThursdayThoughts #VoteBlue #JamalKhashoggi
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2/"The crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, ordered an operation to lure Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi back to Saudi Arabia from his home in Virginia and then detain him, according to U.S. intelligence intercepts of Saudi officials discussing the plan.
3/"The intelligence, described by U.S. officials familiar with it, is another piece of evidence implicating the Saudi regime in Khashoggi’s disappearance last week after he entered the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul. Turkish officials say that a Saudi security team lay in wait for
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Dear @TheRock,

Are you aware that it appears your friend, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS), ordered the assassination of @WashingtonPost journalist Jamal Khasoggi?

Are you even going to say anything?

You posted so fondly of your dinner + "fine tequila" with him.
Dear @CNN & @Bloomberg & @FinancialTimes & @nytimes & @CNBC & @FoxBusiness,

Are you going to actually still go to the Saudi Arabian Future Investment conference headed up by Mohammed bin Salman after it appears he had a @WashingtonPost journalist killed?

futureinvestmentinitiative.com/en/partners
Dear @BeckyCNN,

Are you still going to be a featured speaker at the Saudi Arabian Future Investment conference this month when it appears their government had a @WashingtonPost journalist assassinated?
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Turkish newspaper Sabah has passenger lists for the two planes HZ-SK1 and HZ-SK2 which arrived from Riyadh to Ankara on the day #JamalKhashoggi disappeared into the Saudi consulate: 9 on the first, 6 on the second, Saudi officials + intelligence officers. nytimes.com/2018/10/09/wor…
Photograph of the HZ-SK2, taken in June 2018; this plane arrived in Istanbul at 3:13am on Oct 2nd, 10 hours before Khashoggi disappeared into the Saudi consulate. Pic from jetphotos.com. jetphotos.com/registration/H…
The NYTimes publishes a timeline with most of the reported information about the disappearance and possible murder of Jamal Khashoggi. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
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#Khashoggi Case Thread: I am going to ‘pin’ this post to use it as an ‘Info Thread’ on the #Khashoggi Case. I am in #Turkey. I’ve been following the case closely and with access to sources & experts here. This is a very ‘sensitive’ criminal case due to ‘Diplomatic Booby Traps’!!!
The Evidence Obtained Outside Cameras will not show any evidence of ‘tempering’ but other than license plates of dozens of diplomatic cars (Many with tinted windows-large trunks) with related time stamp, drivers Info, model/year: Nothing.
#Turkish Intel-Investigative Bodies also have the list of all Diplomatic & Private Saudi & “other significant’ Planes in #Turkey for the period of ‘interest.’ Many of the Target airports have their own security cameras & related evidence.
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