The scandal surrounding the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Hashukji in Turkey is gaining momentum.
The Saudis initially went into denial, but later acknowledged the murder. And they even filed a charge against the most likely security officials who lit up in Istanbul.
Saudi Arabia is a monarchy in which not only the form of government, but also the system of punishments has remained from gloomy feudalism.
Here is executed.
Differently. Cut off the head, hang, until recently, stoned.
In strict accordance with the ancient principle of talion. Simply put - that same eye, which is an eye, and a tooth, which is a tooth.
Not hiding and not hiding.
Publicly.
With videos on YouTube.
The killing of an opposition journalist at the embassy (according to rumors, it seems, after torture and cutting off fingers) differs from the usual practice, except that it was committed on the territory of another state. If there was enough patience (by the way, it is not clear why it wasn’t enough - maybe it was indeed killed by chance, because it offered resistance) to bring it to the native penates, no world scandal would have happened.
It did not happen in August of this year, when, according to some sources, the Saudis executed human rights activist Esra al-Homgam for participating in anti-government protests.
In total, last year, 146 people were executed in Saudi Arabia, of which (from 2015) seven are women.
One could, of course, argue long about the double standards of the West and that the Saudis historically get away with everything. And explain why. But it is boring, besides it has already been written many, many times.
I am now more interested in more.
In the Russian media space - in the media, on blogs and almost on Odnoklassniki (there, by the way, more often than others) - they love to tell a story about how one generous and intelligent state will fairly distribute oil revenues among all citizens and even newborns It does not leave it deprived, crediting some thousand dollars to the account of the infant.
Just for being born in this blessed country.
Well, of course, the next question is that everything is not so in Russia.
Awful and unfair.
This story is presented in different formats - scientifically and simply, supported by complex tables and primitive demotivators.
And has the same success.
This generous and wise country is called Saudi Arabia.
Yes, I know, Kuwait and the Emirates also pay (though much less), but even there with human rights, frankly, problems.
Not like the Saudis, but in proportion to the oil scholarships. So you have to somehow decide: freedom or sausage.
Here, by the way.
"United States Treasury Secretary Stephen Mnuchin will travel to Saudi Arabia to strengthen relations, despite the situation with the death of journalist Jamal Hashukji," reports The New York Times.
Life goes on.
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