With a warm handshake, French President Emmanuel Macron welcomed Saudi Prince Mohammed Bin Salman yesterday at the Elysee Palace. After the handshake the two leaders without exchanging a single word entered the building.
Human rights organizations strongly protested Bin Salman’s visit to France, stressing that in this way the international prestige of the Saudi prince, who according to the American secret services approved the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate, was essentially restored. in Istanbul in 2018.
The American organization “Democracy for the Arab World Now”, perhaps better known by the acronym DAWN, appealed to the French justice system, requesting that a criminal investigation be launched against the prince regarding the murder of Khashoggi.
Sarah Lee Whitson, executive director of DAWN and former Middle East director of Human Rights Watch, told Associated Press television: “The goal of our appeal is for French justice to call the prince to account. We have been preparing for two years. the appeal so that we are ready to take legal action when Bin Salman set foot on French soil. We know that justice will never be served in the Khashoggi case. But it is even symbolic because without such legal actions various leaders around the world they’ll think they can do whatever they want. Even massacre a journalist working for the Washington Post. Or kidnap and torture other journalists, writers or activists anywhere in the world knowing that no one will hold them accountable.”
“They embrace dictators”
Recently, as part of his Middle East tour, US President Biden visited Prince Bin Salman in Riyadh, who was also received in Athens last Tuesday. We remind you that during the American election campaign, Joe Biden had said that he would deal with Saudi Arabia as a pariah state.
But the weather is changing and the war in Ukraine with the skyrocketing of energy costs turned many countries towards Saudi Arabia. The West has long tried in vain to persuade Riyadh to increase oil production to lower the price of the black gold and with it inflation.
The executive director of the DAWN organization finally wonders: “How will Macron and Biden convince public opinion to support Ukraine, defending Democracy, the rule of law and the fight against war crimes when they embrace dictators, for example, in the Middle East, who invade other countries, bomb civilians, and terrorize and torture not only their own people, but also populations across their borders?”
Stefanos Georgakopoulos (APTN, AFP)
Source: Deutsche Welle
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