London-based lawyers Rodney Dixon QC and Lord Kenneth Donald John Macdonald said suspending Saudi Arabia from the body would “act as a major lever for the government to clean up their act and make a proper new start”.
Source/Credit: The Independent
By Tom Batchelor | February 1, 2018
A campaign to remove Saudi Arabia from the UN Human Rights Council has been launched by a group of British lawyers, who argue the desert kingdom’s membership of the body is “contradictory and ironic”.
Saudi Arabia, whose seat on the council expires in 2019, has faced international condemnation for its role in the Yemen conflict.
It is also accused of crackdowns on political dissidents as well as having deeply conservative laws on issues including homosexuality and women’s rights.
In a report, London-based lawyers Rodney Dixon QC and Lord Kenneth Donald John Macdonald said suspending Saudi Arabia from the body would “act as a major lever for the government to clean up their act and make a proper new start”.
They raised the plight of 60 political activists and peace campaigners who the human rights lawyers said were detained in September last year.
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