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Saudi Arabia: Counterterror court targets activists — American Bar Association

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Key
aba-2019-counterterror-court-targets-activists
Authors
American Bar Association Center for Human Rights
Issued
2019-4
Type
report
Publisher
American Bar Association
Raw CSL JSON
{
  "URL": "https://www.americanbar.org/groups/human_rights/reports/saudi-terror-court-targets-activists/",
  "note": "Date from the ABA's Special Tribunals Against Human Rights Defenders index page. Reflects the views of ABA Center for Human Rights staff, not ABA policy.",
  "type": "report",
  "title": "Saudi Arabia: Counterterror court targets activists",
  "author": [
    {
      "literal": "American Bar Association Center for Human Rights"
    }
  ],
  "issued": {
    "date-parts": [
      [
        2019,
        4
      ]
    ]
  },
  "accessed": {
    "date-parts": [
      [
        2026,
        9,
        25
      ]
    ]
  },
  "publisher": "American Bar Association"
}

Claims

  1. 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.
    "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"
    Quote language: en
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