Why a British grandfather faces 350 lashes in Saudi Arabia,Karl Andree, a 74-year-old British grandfather, faces 350 accessible lashes in Saudi Arabia afterwards bootleg wine was begin in his car.
Saudi badge begin wine in Andree’s car in August 2014, and he has back been confined a yearlong book for possessing booze – an actionable act in the Islamic country amiss by 80 lashes or more. Andree has yet to be appear from prison, and his accouchement say their ancestor could now face accessible flogging aloft commutual his bastille time, Reuters reported.
“We appeal [Prime Minister] David Cameron to alone arbitrate and admonition get our ancestor home,” the ancestors said in a account to the Sun. “The Saudi government will alone accept to him.”
Simon Andree, Karl’s son, asks his own country to yield albatross for his father’s predicament. “He’s at the basal of a pecking adjustment and all the business affairs with Saudi Arabia and the UK are apparently demography antecedence over it,” Andree told BBC.Western countries, such as Britain and the United States, accept continued tiptoed about Saudi Arabia’s Islamic amends system, which sometimes calls for accessible stoning, flogging, executions and crucifixions.
In January, President Obama cut a cruise in India abbreviate to appear the burial for then-Saudi baton King Abdullah. A move that highlighted, what some see, as a arrant apathy for animal rights issues in the country.
“It’s time for the White House to accomplish animal rights in Saudi Arabia a top priority,” Sunjeev Bery, an Amnesty International official told The Washington Post. “For too long, the US government has put cartography and the activity accord over the basal freedoms and animal rights of the Saudi Arabian people.”
Mr. Obama has accustomed such criticism, but says there are aswell added issues we charge to consider.
“Sometimes we charge to antithesis our charge to allege to them about animal rights issues with actual apropos we accept in agreement of counterterrorism or ambidextrous with bounded stability,” Obama said in a CNN interview. Obama accept to accept taken his own admonition during his contempo affair with King Salman in DC endure month, area the altercation focused on the Iran nuclear accord instead of animal rights issues in Salman's own country.
And like the US, Britain considers Saudi Arabia one of its abutting aggressive allies in the Middle East.
The UK withdrew from a $9 actor accord this anniversary to accommodate Saudi Arabia with bastille training services, a breach that the British government claims is different to Andree’s case. And behindhand of the cancellation, some Brits, including Labour affair baton Jeremy Corbyn, were abashed the accord was advised in the aboriginal place.
Similar clashes amid Saudi law and Western amends systems accept occurred in the contempo years, such as the book for Saudi blogger Raif Badawi. Mr. Badawi was bedevilled in 2014 to ten years in bastille and 1,000 lashes (50 lashes every Friday) for about criticizing the country’s religious and political leaders.
Kirsten Andree, Karl’s daughter, said her ancestor abjure his accomplishments and has already been punished appropriately. “My dad bankrupt the rules in a country that does not acquiesce booze but he’s served his time,” Kirsten told the Sun this week. “Dad is 74 and not a able-bodied man.” Andree, who has lived in Saudi Arabia for the accomplished 25 years as an oil executive, reportedly suffered ailments afore his imprisonment, including asthma and cancer.
Saudi badge begin wine in Andree’s car in August 2014, and he has back been confined a yearlong book for possessing booze – an actionable act in the Islamic country amiss by 80 lashes or more. Andree has yet to be appear from prison, and his accouchement say their ancestor could now face accessible flogging aloft commutual his bastille time, Reuters reported.
“We appeal [Prime Minister] David Cameron to alone arbitrate and admonition get our ancestor home,” the ancestors said in a account to the Sun. “The Saudi government will alone accept to him.”
Simon Andree, Karl’s son, asks his own country to yield albatross for his father’s predicament. “He’s at the basal of a pecking adjustment and all the business affairs with Saudi Arabia and the UK are apparently demography antecedence over it,” Andree told BBC.Western countries, such as Britain and the United States, accept continued tiptoed about Saudi Arabia’s Islamic amends system, which sometimes calls for accessible stoning, flogging, executions and crucifixions.
In January, President Obama cut a cruise in India abbreviate to appear the burial for then-Saudi baton King Abdullah. A move that highlighted, what some see, as a arrant apathy for animal rights issues in the country.
“It’s time for the White House to accomplish animal rights in Saudi Arabia a top priority,” Sunjeev Bery, an Amnesty International official told The Washington Post. “For too long, the US government has put cartography and the activity accord over the basal freedoms and animal rights of the Saudi Arabian people.”
Mr. Obama has accustomed such criticism, but says there are aswell added issues we charge to consider.
“Sometimes we charge to antithesis our charge to allege to them about animal rights issues with actual apropos we accept in agreement of counterterrorism or ambidextrous with bounded stability,” Obama said in a CNN interview. Obama accept to accept taken his own admonition during his contempo affair with King Salman in DC endure month, area the altercation focused on the Iran nuclear accord instead of animal rights issues in Salman's own country.
And like the US, Britain considers Saudi Arabia one of its abutting aggressive allies in the Middle East.
The UK withdrew from a $9 actor accord this anniversary to accommodate Saudi Arabia with bastille training services, a breach that the British government claims is different to Andree’s case. And behindhand of the cancellation, some Brits, including Labour affair baton Jeremy Corbyn, were abashed the accord was advised in the aboriginal place.
Similar clashes amid Saudi law and Western amends systems accept occurred in the contempo years, such as the book for Saudi blogger Raif Badawi. Mr. Badawi was bedevilled in 2014 to ten years in bastille and 1,000 lashes (50 lashes every Friday) for about criticizing the country’s religious and political leaders.
Kirsten Andree, Karl’s daughter, said her ancestor abjure his accomplishments and has already been punished appropriately. “My dad bankrupt the rules in a country that does not acquiesce booze but he’s served his time,” Kirsten told the Sun this week. “Dad is 74 and not a able-bodied man.” Andree, who has lived in Saudi Arabia for the accomplished 25 years as an oil executive, reportedly suffered ailments afore his imprisonment, including asthma and cancer.
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