http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC...stMembers.aspxSaudi Arabia is a recurring member of the UN Human Rights Council'
SA was also a part of the predesor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...n_Human_Rights'...None of these measures, however, were able to make the Commission as effective as desired, mainly because of the presence of human rights violators and the politicization of the body. During the following years until its extinction, the UNCHR became increasingly discredited among activists and governments alike.
The Commission held its final meeting in Geneva on March 27, 2006 and was replaced by the United Nations Human Rights Council in the same year...'
The council which replaced the cosmmision appears to have the same membbrship.
And..the human Rights Commitee.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UN_Huma...mittee#MembersOstensibly created to avoid the polarization of the other two.
egypt'
Tunisia
Morooco
The UN is pretty useless on rights. Muslim states declare the right to be Muslim nd live by the Koran.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misha%2...t_Fahd_al_Saud'...Princess Misha'al bint Fahd (1958 – 15 July 1977) (Arabic: الأميرة مشاعل بنت فهد بن محمد بن عبدالعزيز آل سعود) was a member of House of Saud, who was executed for alleged adultery[1] in 1977, at the age of 19. She was a granddaughter of Prince Muhammad bin Abdulaziz, who was an older brother of King Khalid...
Her family sent Misha'al bint Fahd, at her own request, to Lebanon to attend school. While there, she fell in love with a man, Khaled al-Sha'er Mulhallal, the nephew of Ali Hassan al-Shaer the Saudi ambassador in Lebanon and they began an affair. When, upon their return to Saudi Arabia, it emerged that they had conspired to meet alone on several occasions, a charge of adultery was brought against them. After attempting to fake her own drowning[2] and being caught trying to escape from Saudi Arabia with Khaled, disguised as a man but being recognized by the passport examiner at Jeddah airport,[3] she was returned to her family.[4] Under Sharia law, a person can only be convicted of adultery by the testimony of four adult male witnesses to the actual sexual penetration, or by their own admission of guilt, stating three times in court "I have committed adultery." There were no witnesses. Her family urged her not to confess, but instead to merely promise never to see her lover again. On her return to the courtroom, she allegedly repeated her confession: "I have committed adultery. I have committed adultery. I have committed adultery."...
On 15 July 1977, both were publicly executed in Jeddah by the side of the Queen's Building in the park. Despite her royal status, she was blindfolded, made to kneel, and executed on the explicit instructions of her grandfather,[5][6] a senior member of the royal family, for the alleged dishonour she brought on her clan and defying a royal order calling for her to marry a man selected by the family.[5][7] Khaled, after being forced to watch her execution, was beheaded with a sword by, it is believed, one of the princess's male relatives. It took five blows to sever his head, which was not the work of a professional executioner.[3][8] Both executions were conducted near the palace in Jeddah, not in the public execution square in Jeddah.
Following the execution, segregation of women became more severe[9] and the religious police also began patrolling bazaars, shopping malls, and any other place where men and women might happen to meet.[8] When Prince Muhammad was later asked if the two deaths were necessary, he said, "It was enough for me that they were in the same room together".[8]...'
Those of us critical of SA and Islam would be in serious trouble were we known and traveled to SA.
A recent beheading
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