Manal al-Gafiri, a Saudi girl of seventeen years was jailed for 18 years for tweeting comments in favour of political prisoners. She was jailed in August but the news came out a day ago as Muhammed bin Salman gave an interview to Fox News. He says the laws are bad and he is working to change them. He also says that the murder of Jamal Khashoggi was a “mistake”.
When was it the last time in Europe that a dissident was “mistakenly” murdered?
Muhammed bin Salman, who is desperate to do business with the West, is forced to reduce his barbarity to keep up appearances in the West, and that’s why the death of Khashoggi was a “mistake”. Pressure by the West on the rule of law works. MBS has to pretend he is a civilised human being to do business with the West because relying on his Asian friends such as Russia and China is not enough even to start with.
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