King Abdullah Interrogates an American Prosecutor
By Dr. Ali Alyami
A Saudi national and his wife were found guilty of abusing their maid in Colorado. After a lengthy, transparent and open court trial, the Husband Al-Turki was sentenced to 28 years to life in prison. His trial and conviction were depicted in Saudi press and mosques as part of an anti-Islamic campaign. King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia demanded an explanation for the verdict and surely enough, the State Department dispatched the prosecutor to the royal court in Saudi Arabia. The prosecutor was grilled for three days by King Abdullah whose religious judicial system is known to be one of the world’s worst.
The unsettling question that people should be concerned with is how far the US government will bend to please the tyrannical Saudi monarchy which does not recognize the rule of law in its courts or anywhere else. This is also not he first time that the US has accommodated the Royal Family in this regard. A State Department official said “similar trips have been made before [to explain US court decisions to the Saudi monarchy].” (‘Colorado AG Defends Abuse Case to Saudis’ pg. 1, Dan Elliot, Associated Press, November 17, 2006). Until the United States government, business and educational institutions abandon the policy of justifying tyranny and sacrificing justice in the name of stability, violations of basic human rights in Saudi Arabia, religious intolerance and incitements will continue to haunt the Saudi people as well as the international community.
The Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia calls upon the United States Government, business and scholars to acknowledge injustice in Saudi Arabia and work with Saudi reformers to put an end to the Saudi Royal Family’s absolute system of governance.
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