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This is disgraceful and unconscionable. Shame on @MIT and all US universities who enable the absolute monarchy of #Saudi Arabia. Ruinuous war in #Yemen, murder of a journalist, torture of women’s rights activists, jails full of dissidents not bad enough? h/t @david_batty
“American universities' ties with #Saudi Arabia-always controversial-are coming under more scrutiny. A look at the multimillion-dollar connections between SA & leading American universities-and the questions being raised about what the Saudis are getting.” insidehighered.com/news/2018/11/0…
Last Friday I spoke at @MIT @medialab - not knowing that Crown Prince Mohamed Bin Salman had visited campus and the lab during his US visit in March. In my talk I condemned MBS & regime for Yemen war,Khashoggi murder, torture of feminists & beheading of Indonesian domestic worker
I also condemned Trump, plenty, and the multiple ways US administrations (Trump is just the latest) sell out people in the kingdom in return for oil and arms deals. Stop enabling a tyrannical and corrup regime. (And yes, I say the same about the Egyptian regime.)
I post this every day. I have long called the way women are treated in #Saudi Arabia as gender apartheid. Crown Prince Mohamed Bin Salman has detained women’s rights activists who been subjected to torture and sexual assault
This. Exactly this.
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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/…
“After being allowed to meet #RahafAlqunun, UNHCR on Monday agreed to place her under its care & process her for travel to another country, during which #Thailand will allow her entry, Lt. Gen. Surachate Hakparn,immigration bureau chief. told reporters just after 8pm.“ #SaveRahaf Rahaf Alqunun, at center, is escorted by immigration chief Surachate Hakparn, at right, Monday at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport.
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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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*Deep breaths*

It’s easy to get lost in the grief and outrage over Trump siding Saudi regime that thinks nothing of butchering peaceful journalists in consulates.

But hope is not all lost. Congress must act, and the American people can still help.

Here’s a thread #Khashoggi
1. Trump has basically chosen to ignore the CIA’s “high confidence” conclusion that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered #Khashoggi’s murder.

As @ThePlumLineGS and @paulwaldman1 note, Dem oversight can help flesh out the CIA’s conclusions

wapo.st/2qXD8oE
2) the Former CIA chief, @JohnBrennan has said that Congress should move to declassify the CIA intelligence on the Saudis, Mohammed bin Salman, and the #Khashoggi murder.

Congress must move in that direction.

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Shocked and horrified. That is our feeling after reading this bizarre statement by @realDonaldTrump that excuses the murder of Jamal #Khashoggi and seeks to justify the intentional starvation of up to 13 million people in #Yemen. Let’s unpack this. 1/8
whitehouse.gov/briefings-stat…
It is telling that the statement starts by placing blame Iran, not on Mohammed bin Salman, front and center in the defense of murder and lawlessness. Conflict with Iran is both a prized goal for the administration and an lazy appeal to Trump’s base. 2/8 lobelog.com/trumps-march-t…
Trump then turns to the key issue, money. He has signaled time and again that no atrocity is too great for him to pass on the riches of Saudi Arabia. The children of Yemen and the activists of Saudi Arabia are the unwilling sacrifices to the his deities of profit and avarice. 3/8
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How to End U.S. Support for Saudi Arabia's war in #Yemen:

STEP 1: Call your U.S. Representative in Congress and ask them to cosponsor the War Powers Resolution: "H.Con.Res 138."

Details ... 1/x
(#HConRes138)
- Dial (202) 224-3121 Mon-Fri 9 am -5 pm Eastern Time.

- Ask for your Member of Congress by name.

- Say: "Please cosponsor H.Con.Res 138 and end U.S. support for Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen."

2/x
Details: H.Con.Res 138 is House Concurrent Resolution 138.

congress.gov/bill/115th-con…

3/x
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1/ The #Saudi kidnapping of #Khashoggi reminds me of the kidnapping of #Hariri. It is meant to embarrass the other party, this time the gov of #Turkey, and provoke a diplomatic crisis. This is drug Cartel methods. It has no other goal than to assert power over the other.
2/ However, resorting to these methods to assert power in the political and international affairs sphere is always a sign of weakness and a sign of a power in crisis. #SaudiArabia
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Saudi Arabia to behead Israa Al-Ghomgham- a well known female human rights defender from Qatif- for taking part in peaceful protests.
Israa has been imprisoned for 32 months with no access to legal representation.
esohr.org/en/?p=1852
Israa's father is trying to get her a lawyer since the notorious specialized criminal "court" (SCC) is anything but a court
Disturbing news for all female human rights activists in and outside Saudi Arabia. Such actions will have dangerous consequences on all Arab women activists in neighboring countries as well, mainly Bahrain.
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#Saudi Arabia says #Canada's statement on the arrest of activists in the Kingdom is an unacceptable interference in its internal affairs, expels the Canadian ambassador and freezes all future trade. bbc.in/2vs6crl
"In her first public response to Saudi Arabia's actions, Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Monday: 'Let me be very clear ... Canada will always stand up for human rights in Canada and around the world, and women's rights are human rights'." aljazeera.com/news/2018/08/s…
Direct investment was already down in #Saudi Arabia after some of the recent disturbances; this spat with #Canada is unlikely to help. on.wsj.com/2OgITYl
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