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Opposition Figure Raps Saudi Regime's Dark Human Rights Record
TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior Saudi human rights activist and opposition figure lambasted Riyadh's dark record in violating the rights of its own citizens and other countries' nationals working in Saudi Arabia.
"The Saudi regime has turned the country into a human rights cemetery," Hamzeh al-Hassan told FNA on Wednesday, adding that the Saudi regime which is a clear instance of the rule of a minority over majority violates the human rights of religious minorities through its tribal and sectarian approach.
"Human rights violation has a long history in Saudi Arabia manifested in the detention of political and human rights activists, imprisonment of the people, lack of freedom of speech and a suffocating security atmosphere," he added.
Hassan also described frequent and continued violation of women, foreign workers and Shiites' rights, lack of free elections, minority rule over majority and execution of foreign workers as among the cases indicating the Saudi regime's violation of human rights.
Given the popular uprisings and revolutions sweeping the Middle-East and North of Africa and the growing discontent among the Saudi people, many analysts believe that the unrests will soon spread to Saudi Arabia.
"The reason for the Saudi Army's invasion of Bahrain is that if people's revolutions in Yemen and Bahrain yield results, the Saudi people will certainly follow suit and stage a popular uprising as well," Seyed Hassan al-Moussavi al-Bahraini told FNA in May.
In similar remarks, a prominent Bahraini politician said in April that the current revolution in his Shiite-majority nation would give rise to a similar uprising among the Shiite minority of Saudi Arabia, who mainly live in oil rich regions of the Arab country.
"Adjacency of Bahrain's Shiite-majority population to Saudi Arabia's Shiite region of al-Shortiyah, which is just 25km away from the borders with Bahrain, poses a potential threat to the Saudi regime," Representative of the Bahraini Shiites in Iran Abdullah Daqaq said.
"Victory of the Bahraini people's uprising would lead to a similar uprising by the Shiites of the al-Shortiyah region that has the richest oil resources in Saudi Arabia," Daqaq underscored.
He further pointed out that the deep and grave impact that such an uprising in Saudi Arabia would leave on the world oil market, which would certainly harm the interests of the western countries, is the root cause of the Saudi occupation of Bahrain and the brutal suppression of the Bahrainis' popular movement by the Al-Khalifa and Al-Saud regimes and the West's support for their crimes.
Also earlier in April, a prominent Saudi political analyst said that the Saudi ruling system is highly unpopular among the country's people.
Speaking to FNA, Mohammad al-Mos'ari said he believes "any free opinion poll in Saudi Arabia would reveal that at least 70% of the people want the overthrow of the Al-Saud dynasty".
He further underlined that a revolution in the Kingdom is now very likely, and noted, "I believe that popular protests cannot be silenced."
"The Saudi regime has turned the country into a human rights cemetery," Hamzeh al-Hassan told FNA on Wednesday, adding that the Saudi regime which is a clear instance of the rule of a minority over majority violates the human rights of religious minorities through its tribal and sectarian approach.
"Human rights violation has a long history in Saudi Arabia manifested in the detention of political and human rights activists, imprisonment of the people, lack of freedom of speech and a suffocating security atmosphere," he added.
Hassan also described frequent and continued violation of women, foreign workers and Shiites' rights, lack of free elections, minority rule over majority and execution of foreign workers as among the cases indicating the Saudi regime's violation of human rights.
Given the popular uprisings and revolutions sweeping the Middle-East and North of Africa and the growing discontent among the Saudi people, many analysts believe that the unrests will soon spread to Saudi Arabia.
"The reason for the Saudi Army's invasion of Bahrain is that if people's revolutions in Yemen and Bahrain yield results, the Saudi people will certainly follow suit and stage a popular uprising as well," Seyed Hassan al-Moussavi al-Bahraini told FNA in May.
In similar remarks, a prominent Bahraini politician said in April that the current revolution in his Shiite-majority nation would give rise to a similar uprising among the Shiite minority of Saudi Arabia, who mainly live in oil rich regions of the Arab country.
"Adjacency of Bahrain's Shiite-majority population to Saudi Arabia's Shiite region of al-Shortiyah, which is just 25km away from the borders with Bahrain, poses a potential threat to the Saudi regime," Representative of the Bahraini Shiites in Iran Abdullah Daqaq said.
"Victory of the Bahraini people's uprising would lead to a similar uprising by the Shiites of the al-Shortiyah region that has the richest oil resources in Saudi Arabia," Daqaq underscored.
He further pointed out that the deep and grave impact that such an uprising in Saudi Arabia would leave on the world oil market, which would certainly harm the interests of the western countries, is the root cause of the Saudi occupation of Bahrain and the brutal suppression of the Bahrainis' popular movement by the Al-Khalifa and Al-Saud regimes and the West's support for their crimes.
Also earlier in April, a prominent Saudi political analyst said that the Saudi ruling system is highly unpopular among the country's people.
Speaking to FNA, Mohammad al-Mos'ari said he believes "any free opinion poll in Saudi Arabia would reveal that at least 70% of the people want the overthrow of the Al-Saud dynasty".
He further underlined that a revolution in the Kingdom is now very likely, and noted, "I believe that popular protests cannot be silenced."
