Human rights activist groups criticize the decision of the french President, Emmanuel Macronto meet this Thursday with the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Muhammad Bin Salman four years after the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
The meeting is seen as the last step for the reinstatement of Bin Salman in the circuit international after US President Joe Biden met with the crown prince earlier in the month.
Given this, associations such as Reporters Without Borders either International Amnesty They have criticized the fact that the French president receives Bin Salman at the Elysee – dinner included. “I am deeply concerned about the visit, for what it means for our world and what it means for Jamal (Khashoggi) and people like him,” Amnesty International’s Secretary General, Amnesty International, told AFP. Agnes Callamarddescribing Emmanuel Macron, meeting Thursday with Saudi Crown Prince Mohamed Bin Salman as a man who “will not tolerate any dissent”.
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“Contempt for truth and justice”
The same line is maintained by the general secretary of RSF, Christophe Deloire. “Almost four years after the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the reintegration of Mohamed Bin Salman into international relations only it supposes contempt for truth and justice”.
Deloire asked Macron to demand from the Saudi crown prince the release of the 27 journalists who are currently detained in that country, in addition to allowing the departure of Raif Badawi, retained after having served 10 years in prison and whose family awaits him in Canada.
RSF had filed a lawsuit in Germany against Bin Salman for Khashoggi’s murder, considering the country’s judicial system more appropriate for this type of complaint.
Two foreign NGOs, Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) and Trial International They announced this Thursday that they had filed a lawsuit in French justice against the Saudi crown prince for complicity in torture and forced disappearance.
The complainants consider that Bin Salman does not enjoy immunity because he is the heir and not the head of state.
Dinner at Elysee
The Saudi prince plans to hold a working dinner with the French president at the Elysee tonight, a few days after receiving the president of the United States, Joe Biden, in Riyadh.
Speaking to France Info radio, Bergé indicated that Macron “he has to receive certain interlocutors” and recalled that Biden himself recently traveled to Riyadh, which demonstrates “the need to maintain a deep dialogue with the Persian Gulf countries.”
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