Saudi Arabia Lashes, The accouchement of a British man accept alleged on David Cameron to arbitrate to save their ancestor from getting subjected to 350 lashes in Saudi Arabia. Karl Andree, 74, faces getting about flogged as allotment of a abuse imposed afterwards bottles of bootleg wine were reportedly begin endure year in his car by Saudi badge administration austere laws prohibiting alcohol.
The ancestors of the oil executive, who is getting captivated at Jeddah’s Briman prison, say he is already anemic as a aftereffect of blight and abhorrence that the flogging will annihilate him. They said in a account appear by the Sun: “Our ancestor has accustomed 25 years of his alive activity to Saudi Arabia, and this is how he is treated. Until his arrest, he has consistently been blessed alive there and acquainted safe.
“He is 74 years of age, has had blight three times and his wife is dying in a home in the UK. He now needs medical affliction for his blight and asthma, and there is no agnosticism in our apperception that 350 lashes will annihilate him. We appeal David Cameron to alone arbitrate and advice get our ancestor home. The Saudi government will alone accept to him.”
The Foreign Office said: “Our admiral agents are continuing to abetment Mr Andree, including approved visits to analysis on his welfare, and common acquaintance with his advocate and family. Ministers and chief admiral accept aloft Mr Andree’s case with the Saudi government and we are actively gluttonous his absolution as anon as possible.”
Andree’s three children, Hugh, 46, Kirsten, 45, and Simon, 33, are appear to accept been lobbying carefully for their ancestor for added than a ages but accept now absitively to go public.
The attack by the ancestors comes at a time if Britain’s adept accord with Saudi Arabia is beneath new scrutiny. The Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, endure ages acclimated his keynote accent at his party’s anniversary appointment to alarm on the prime abbot to defended the absolution of a Saudi protestor, Ali Mohammed al-Nimr, who has been accursed to execution. Al-Nimr was arrested in 2012 for reportedly getting complex in Arab bounce protests in Qatif, in the country’s eastern province.
The ancestors of the oil executive, who is getting captivated at Jeddah’s Briman prison, say he is already anemic as a aftereffect of blight and abhorrence that the flogging will annihilate him. They said in a account appear by the Sun: “Our ancestor has accustomed 25 years of his alive activity to Saudi Arabia, and this is how he is treated. Until his arrest, he has consistently been blessed alive there and acquainted safe.
“He is 74 years of age, has had blight three times and his wife is dying in a home in the UK. He now needs medical affliction for his blight and asthma, and there is no agnosticism in our apperception that 350 lashes will annihilate him. We appeal David Cameron to alone arbitrate and advice get our ancestor home. The Saudi government will alone accept to him.”
The Foreign Office said: “Our admiral agents are continuing to abetment Mr Andree, including approved visits to analysis on his welfare, and common acquaintance with his advocate and family. Ministers and chief admiral accept aloft Mr Andree’s case with the Saudi government and we are actively gluttonous his absolution as anon as possible.”
Andree’s three children, Hugh, 46, Kirsten, 45, and Simon, 33, are appear to accept been lobbying carefully for their ancestor for added than a ages but accept now absitively to go public.
The attack by the ancestors comes at a time if Britain’s adept accord with Saudi Arabia is beneath new scrutiny. The Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, endure ages acclimated his keynote accent at his party’s anniversary appointment to alarm on the prime abbot to defended the absolution of a Saudi protestor, Ali Mohammed al-Nimr, who has been accursed to execution. Al-Nimr was arrested in 2012 for reportedly getting complex in Arab bounce protests in Qatif, in the country’s eastern province.
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