...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions...
defenders despite reforms touted by the kingdom's crown prince,
The court in Riyadh sentenced Mohammad al-Otaibi and Abdullah al-Attawi to 14 and seven years imprisonment, respectively, the rights group said.
"The harsh sentencing... confirms our fears that the new leadership of [Crown Prince] Mohammed bin Salman
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Crown Prince of Soddy Arabia...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
as of 2016....
is determined to silence civil society and human rights defenders in the kingdom," said Samir Hadid, director of campaigns for the Middle East at Amnesty.
"The crackdown on members of the human rights community has continued unabated, with almost all the country's most prominent human rights defenders now behind bars," she said.
Otaibi and Attawi were charged with participating in setting up an organization and announcing it before securing an authorisation. They were also accused of dividing national unity, spreading chaos and inciting public opinion by publishing statements harmful to the kingdom's image and its judicial and security agencies, Amnesty said.
Otaibi, 49, fled to neighbouring Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...in March last year and was extradited to the kingdom two months later. He co-founded the Union for Human Rights in Riyadh in 2013 and authorities ordered it shut after about one month, but he continued his work.