Saudi opposition holds its first foreign conference in Ireland

2/2 Muharram 1438 AH, corresponding to 28/9/2017 The Saudi opposition forces will hold their first comprehensive conference abroad on Friday in Dublin, Ireland, to be the first attempt to form an organized opposition to make concerted efforts to seek reform at a time when the country is deteriorating In public freedoms and economic conditions.

The conference, the first of its kind for the Saudi opposition in the wake of a large wave of arrests in Saudi Arabia during the past few days and dozens of symbols of the Kingdom, and comes shortly after the accession of Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the Covenant, to be the first of his generation in this position, The king will become the youngest king to rule Saudi Arabia in his history. He has also become a subject of debate within the country for nearly two years because of the policies he has adopted, which have raised prices and stripped citizens of their privileges, in addition to adopting the vision of 2030, which is also controversial and opposition from the sector Wide within the body Lakh.

According to the information, the conference in Dublin will see the establishment and launch of “Citizens Without Chains”, a Saudi human rights movement formed in response to the campaign of arrests and policies restricting the freedoms of citizens in Saudi Arabia, which reached the degree of arrest of those who publish a tweet on Twitter or Subscribe to Facebook.

A Saudi source familiar with “Arab21” revealed that the conference will also see the launch of the “Matarika” movement, which aims to enrich the content on the Internet related to political activists and opinion detainees in Saudi Arabia.

Media sources have learned that Dr. Madawi al-Rashed and Yahya al-Asiri and a number of Irish parliamentarians defending freedoms will participate in the conference, which is “the first attempt to gather the efforts of human rights groups concerned with defending freedoms in Saudi Arabia,” according to one of the conference’s organizers

Saudi Arabia has been in a state of increasing controversy in recent months, and the Saudi street is in a state of boredom and anger over the rise in prices resulting from the imposition of large taxes, in addition to the reduction of privileges enjoyed by many citizens, in addition to the austerity measures imposed by the government because of The economic crisis, which resulted from the billions spent by the Saudi government in the war on Yemen and the support and funding of the Syrian opposition, which is also heading for loss, in addition to financing the military coup in Egypt billions of dollars over the past four years.

Source: Arabic

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