All Articles on Mohammad bin Salman

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken concludes his first press briefing at the State Department in Washington, D.C. on January 27, 2021. (Photo: Carlos Barria/AFP via Getty Images) Views
Why Biden Is Dead Wrong on the ICC and Occupied Palestine
Since Palestine as a permanent UN observer state is a member of the ICC and invited the court into its territory, the International Criminal Court has every right to investigate violations of the Rome Statute that took place in those territories.
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Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. (Photo: MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images) Views
With Biden Refusing to Act, It's Time to Take Mohammed bin Salman to Court
With Biden's inaction, courts are the best chance of achieving justice for Jamal Khashoggi and holding Mohammed bin Salman to account for his many human rights abuses.
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President Joe Biden participates in a CNN town hall at the Pabst Theater in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on February 16, 2021. (Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images) Views
Biden Is Following a Failed Blueprint for Forever War
Bombing Syria and excusing the crimes of the Saudi crown prince won’t bring us any closer to a withdrawal from the Middle East.
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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attends a meeting on November 14, 2017, in Riyadh. (Photo: Fayez Nureldine/AFP via Getty Images) News
'This Will Embolden the Murderous Prince': Biden Rebuked for Letting MBS Off Hook for Butchering of Khashoggi
"That President Biden has chosen not to pursue that course suggests that the 'fundamental' change he promised in U.S.-Saudi relations will not include holding to account its reckless ruler, who consequently is unlikely to be deterred from further criminal behavior."
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Friends of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi hold posters bearing his picture as they attend an event marking the second-year anniversary of his assassination in front of Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul on October 2, 2020. (Photo: Ozan Kose/AFP via Getty Images) News
'Utter BS': Human Rights Advocates Outraged Biden Won't Punish MBS Over Gruesome Khashoggi Murder
After release of U.S. intelligence report, one critic said letting Saudi crown prince "get away with the murder" of dissident journalist "is absolutely abhorrent and horrific."
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Saudi human rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul was sentenced on Monday to nearly six years in prison under the kingdom's counterterrorism laws. (Photo: Lina al-Hathloul/Twitter) News
Conviction of Loujain al-Hathloul in Saudi Arabia Condemned as 'Blatant Attack on the Most Basic Human Rights'
"We stand with the al-Hathloul family and their friends who have not given up, and continue to call on the Saudi government to free Loujain," said Ariel Gold of CodePink.
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A protest in Washington, D.C. on October 8, 2018 against the Saudi murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. (Photo: AFP/Getty Images) Views
‘Freedom Is Blossoming’: After Dismembering a Journalist, Saudi Arabia Goes on a PR Spree
Behind the media and money blitz, the kingdom remains one of the world's worst human rights violators—both at home and abroad.
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The fiancée of murdered Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Hatice Cengiz, speaks during an exclusive interview on May 18, 2019. (Photo: Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) News
In Appeal to Biden, Khashoggi's Fiancée Calls for Release of CIA Report on Brutal Saudi Murder
Ahead of the November election, the president-elect said that "Jamal Khashoggi and his loved ones deserve accountability."
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Ms. Hathloul was produced in court on Wednesday. She has been imprisoned for two years, during which she was allegedly tortured and subjected to sexual abuse. (Photo: Loujain al-Hathloul) Views
Hyper-Patriarchal Saudi Arabia Equates Mild Feminism With Terrorism, as Sen. Murphy Calls on Biden To Review Ties With Kingdom
There is nothing in Islam that forbids women to drive, and all the 900 million Muslim women have all along driven except in Saudi Arabia.
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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meet at the Prime Ministry Office in West Jerusalem on November 19, 2020. News
'Iran in the Crosshairs?' Reports of Secret Meeting Between Netanyahu, MbS, and Pompeo Spark Fears of War Plot
"It is extremely alarming that the warmongers most reliant on Trump's blank checks are secretly meeting in the middle of the night as the clock nearly runs out on the Trump administration."
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