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convicts-without-evidence · aba-2019-counterterror-court-targets-activists
- Claim ID
- convicts-without-evidence
- Assertion
- After reviewing judgments and interviewing people familiar with SCC proceedings, the ABA Center for Human Rights concluded that the SCC routinely convicts people of terrorism charges without meaningful evidence; the first defendant convicted by the SCC under the 2014 law was human rights lawyer Waleed Abu al-Khair.
- Quote
It has concluded that the SCC routinely convicts individuals of terrorism charges without any meaningful evidence. ... Bizarrely, the first defendant convicted under the new law by the SCC was a Saudi human rights lawyer, Waleed abu al-Khair
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