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Thursday, March 18, 2004

# Posted 5:02 PM by Patrick Belton  

WAPO EDITORIALIZING ON SAUDI SUPPRESSION OF REFORMERS: This, it seems, is precisely why we need to be backing Arab reformists against their governments, rather than backing off whenever we stand the risk of hurting the feelings of a petty dictator:
What prompted the arrests, Saudi sources say, was a plan by the reformers to establish an independent human rights organization. The professors first asked permission to set up the group, only to be told that the government planned to establish its own human rights organization. Predictably, the official group rolled out last week excluded the dissidents as well as other notable government critics. So the reformers revived their plan for an independent organization -- only to be dragged from their classrooms by Interior Ministry officials, purportedly for "questioning."
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