A British man imprisoned in Saudi Arabia for breaking anti-alcohol laws has returned to Britain, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday, after a diplomatic storm that threatened to dent UK-Saudi relations.
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The rumblings of revolt against Saudi Arabia and the Opec Gulf states are growing louder as half a trillion dollars goes up in smoke, and each month that goes by fails to bring about the long-awaited killer blow against the U.S. shale industry, the Telegraph reported. “I don’t think he’s intending returning to Saudi… we will be having very strong words with him”, said Simon Andree.
He acknowledged that “there have been accusations of breaches of global humanitarian law”, but reassured the interviewer that “the Saudi’s deny there has been any breaches of worldwide humanitarian law”.
Mr Hammond said: “Karl Andree was released from prison hours after my visit to Riyadh on 28 October”. We need to see proper investigations.
Amnesty worldwide has also called for an investigation into Saudi’s Yemen intervention, claiming there is “damning evidence of war crimes”. “We will then find that we can not licence additional shipments of weapons”. United Kingdom ministers have repeatedly said that they relied on Saudi Arabia’s own “assurances” over the proper use of UK-supplied weapons by its forces in Yemen.
Karl Andree, 74, had been in prison for more than a year after he was arrested by Saudi religious police for possessing homemade wine.
The event will also be an ideal platform for negotiating with local companies to establish manufacturing bases in the Saudi Arabia to leverage on-going development, it stated.
The fourth Summit of South American-Arab Countries (ASPA) ended this Thursday in the Saudi capital of Riyadh, with the approval of a document in which the of the 34-member states unanimously condemned “all forms of terrorism linked to any religion, culture or ethnic group”.
Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir spoke of a “convergence of positions” between countries of the two regions on many issues and commended the Latin American nations “positive stance” towards the Palestinian question. Who knows if I would have got out of the Saudi jail, or escaped 378 lashes in a public flogging without this backing?
In an interview with The Sun he said his supporters have “saved my life” and added: “I am overwhelmed by the support and am grateful to Prime Minister David Cameron and the Government for stepping in”.
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Also on the sidelines of the summit, King Abdullah met separately with Prince Mohammad Bin Salman and discussed bilateral relations and the latest developments in the region, a Royal Court statement said.
