Homemade wine
The children of a British man have called on David Cameron to intervene to save their father from being subjected to 350 lashes in Saudi Arabia. Karl Andree, 74, faces being publicly flogged as part of a punishment imposed after bottles of homemade wine were reportedly found last year in his car by Saudi police enforcing strict laws prohibiting alcohol.
The family of the oil executive, who is being held at Jeddah’s Briman prison, say he is already weak as a result of cancer and fear that the flogging will kill him.
Once again, words fail me. The guy is 74 years old and has cancer. He had some wine – and for that they want to hit him with a whip 350 times. What can possibly be the point? The motivation? The justification? Why does someone else’s consumption of wine matter so much that it’s worth whipping him to death?
“He is 74 years of age, has had cancer three times and his wife is dying in a home in the UK. He now needs medical care for his cancer and asthma, and there is no doubt in our mind that 350 lashes will kill him. We implore David Cameron to personally intervene and help get our father home. The Saudi government will only listen to him.”
The Foreign Office said: “Our embassy staff are continuing to assist Mr Andree, including regular visits to check on his welfare, and frequent contact with his lawyer and family. Ministers and senior officials have raised Mr Andree’s case with the Saudi government and we are actively seeking his release as soon as possible.”
And yet Jack Straw said a few years ago that the UK and the KSA rejoiced in “shared values.”
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Of course the UK and the KSA rejoice in ‘shared values’, money, oil and weapons sales, the ties that bind.
Westerners who go to any of those toxic Gulf States to make extra money sometimes seem to be remarkably naive, they’re deluded by all those glittering towers into thinking that they’re civilized societies, they’re not.
Cameron is a Kuffar, a de facto slave in those ‘countries’ and not a member of the ruling oligarchy, who could possibly expect that he would be treated in a civilized manner, he took his chances and apparently lost.
Probably reminiscing about the colonial raj.
@RJW
The KSA’s military budget is the third largest on earth.
And a lot of that dough is spent on weapons manufactured in England.
A few years back a Canadian citizen spent nearly three years in a Saudi prison ( solitary confinement) for a similar offense which later proved to be false. He was tortured on an almost daily basis and Canadian authorities, due to the KSA’s and Canada’s “shared values”, did nothing to help get him out.
After his release he was in such bad shape that he died only a couple of years later, despite the fact he was just 52.
I may be mistaken, but I believe that Saudi Arabia now chairs the UN Human Rights Commission.
His name was William Sampson.
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