Newcastle United: Why is Saudi Arabia-led takeover controversial?

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Here are some of the reasons why the Saudi-led consortium has proved controversial.

Loujain al-Hathloul was released in February after after almost three years in detention

In 2018, Saudi authorities arrested 13 women's rights activists who had led a campaign to lift a ban on women driving.In 2020, a terrorism tribunal found the most prominent activist, Loujain al-Hathloul, guilty of crimes against the state. She denied the charges and UN human rights experts described them as "spurious".

While the judge suspended part of her five-year prison sentence, paving the way for her release this February,All but one of the other activists are reportedly now out of jail on bail or are serving suspended sentences.Areej Al-SadhanAreej al-Sadhan said her brother Abdul Rahman was tortured before being jailed for 20 years for writing satirical tweets that criticised authorities

Women's rights activists have not been the only people to be detained as part of a crackdown against critics in Saudi Arabia, where political parties, trade unions and independent human rights groups are banned. Dozens of human rights defenders, intellectuals, academics, clerics and reformists have also been arrested since 2017, merely for exercising their right to freedom of expression,

 

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Jamal Khashoggi.

To put it another way, how would you react if the mafia brought your football club?

What about Mancity? Barca and etc

Because other clubs are jealous and see us as a threat

Proving football fans are as thick as... Will gladly take money from a corrupt regime and accuse this government of corruption....take money from a nation with appalling human rights yet accuse this one of neglecting it's poor...so long as they can buy titles.. howay the lads

Imagine being a gay Newcastle fan for example and the people who owns your club has killed and would kill you if you lived in the owners country but hey I thought this was a lefty news channel

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