Saudia Arabia and Human Rights?

-Source-The New York Post- Israa al-Ghomgham has spent nearly three years in prison for her nonviolent advocacy of greater rights for Saudi Arabias Shiite minority and now her government wants to execute her. Its barbaric. Ghomgham 29 is to be tried before the Saudi terrorism tribunal on charges solely related to peaceful human-rights activism according to a Human Rights Watch report. Along with five other Shiites she faces beheading (the usual Saudi mode of execution) for fomenting protests in the Qatif area of Eastern Province crimes" that include chanting slogans hostile to the regime filing protests posting on social media seeking to inflame public opinion and providing moral support to rioters. Exercising what ought to be free speech in other words. And none of it remotely related to terrorism although the Specialized Criminal Court has already sent other protesters to the executioner. This comes amid a supposed push to liberalize Saudi Arabia under Mohammed bin Salman the crown prince whos running the kingdom. Is MBS control that thin or does he approve? As Sarah Leah Whitson HRWs Middle East director puts it: Every day the Saudi monarchys unrestrained despotism makes it harder for its public-relations teams to spin the fairy tale of reform to allies and international business." The next hearing in the case is Oct. 28. If the prince is truly serious about reform that date will bring the immediate release of Ghomgham and her co-defendants.