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25 Feb 2023, 5:46 am
Eisen (@NormEisen), Siven Watt (@SivenWatt) and Fred Wertheimer (@FredWertheimer) Immigration Troubling Signs in Biden Administration’s Recent Efforts to Reimplement Migrant Protection Protocols Program by Tom Jawetz (@TomJawetz) Public Corruption Why Mohamed bin Salman’s Slush Fund is an Urgent National Security Matter for Congress by Sarah Leah Whitson (@sarahleah1) Values in Foreign Policy Symposium A Values-based Approach to Foreign Policy? [read post]
18 Nov 2022, 11:26 am
— Sarah Leah Whitson (@sarahleah1) November 18, 2022 Secretary General for Amnesty International Agnès Callamard said the call for bin Salman’s immunity is a deep betrayal. [read post]
22 May 2018, 8:50 am
“Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman’s ‘reform campaign’ has been a frenzy of fear for genuine Saudi reformers who dare to advocate publicly for human rights or women’s empowerment,” Human Rights Watch’s Sarah Leah Whitson said last week in a statement. [read post]
28 Jul 2017, 7:01 am
“It makes no sense for Iran’s judiciary to execute people now under a drug law that will likely bar such executions as early as next month,” said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. [read post]
3 Feb 2017, 1:12 pm
“Executing seven people in one day shows Kuwait is moving in exactly the wrong direction on the death penalty,” said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. [read post]
8 May 2015, 8:47 am
HRW Middle East and North Africa director Sarah Leah Whitson called the situation "deeply worrying,"... [read post]
2 Dec 2014, 5:06 am
Indeed, one of the most consequential “scoops” I’ve had as a blogger, that Human Rights Watch Middle East director Sarah Leah Whitson fundraised among rich Saudi Arabians with a pledge to use the money to counter pro-Israel forces in the West, came from NGO Monitor. [read post]
15 Jun 2012, 7:55 am
The Middle East director for HRW, Sarah Leah Whitson described the widespread use of sexual violence against... [read post]
23 Jan 2012, 1:24 pm
Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch has the following money quote: Iraq is quickly slipping back into authoritarianism as its security forces abuse protesters, harass journalists and torture detainees. . . . [read post]
18 Aug 2011, 7:13 pm
(David Bernstein) It’s fascinating to listen again to this talk by HRW Middle East and North Africa director Sarah Leah Whitson (starting at 16:53) from the Summer of 2009. [read post]
15 Apr 2011, 8:05 am
” As I noted previously, I don’t think a reasonable observer could read HRW’s reports on Gaza, especially in light of statements by HRW poobahs Ken Roth and Sarah Leah Whitson, and reach that conclusion.Opinio Juris commenter Michael Huntziger found a particularly damning quote from HRW, one I had overlooked: “The Obama administration should fully endorse the report of the United Nations fact-finding mission on the Gaza conflict led by Justice… [read post]
6 Apr 2011, 5:17 pm
”Then there is Sarah Leah Whitson, director of HRW’s Middle East division, speaking in Saudi Arabia in May 2009: “Human Rights Watch provided the international community with evidence of Israel using white phosphorus and launching systematic destructive attacks on civilian targets. [read post]
31 Mar 2011, 3:38 pm
Nicholas Burns, The Sultan of Oman Professor of the Practice of International Relations, Harvard Kennedy School of Government; Sarah Leah Whitson, Executive Director, Middle East and North Africa Division, Human Rights Watch (below left); Dirk Vandewalle, Associate Professor of Government, Dartmouth College; and Philippa Thomas, Nieman Fellow, Harvard University & Foreign Correspondent, BBC (below right). [read post]
30 Mar 2011, 3:11 pm
Nicholas Burns, The Sultan of Oman Professor of the Practice of International Relations, Harvard Kennedy School of Government (Principle Presenter) Sarah Leah Whitson, Executive Director, Middle East and North Africa Division, Human Rights Watch Dirk Vandewalle, Associate Professor of Government, Dartmouth College Philippa Thomas, Nieman Journalism Fellow, Harvard University Logistics What: Live Web Seminar on "The Crisis in Libya: The International Response"… [read post]
21 Feb 2011, 5:01 am
Levine speak for the M.E. division; I think their p.r. people have realized that Ken Roth and M.E. director Sarah Leah Whitson are so hostile to Israel that they just add fuel to the fire whenever a controversy erupts). [read post]
19 May 2010, 6:03 am
I think Sarah Leah Whitson’s and Joe Stork’s (the director and deputy-director of HRW’s M.E. division) bona-fides as far left-wing anti-Israel ideologues masquerading as neutral human rights advocates are well-established by now, but if Yglesias has some new information– e.g., that Whitson didn’t really gush over Hezbollah supporter Norman Finkelstein’s “brilliant mind and generous spirit,” or that she really… [read post]
27 Apr 2010, 6:16 am
The piece mentions, but does not dwell on, the various scandals that engulfed HRW last year—the fundraising trip to Saudi Arabia in which HRW Middle East director Sarah Leah Whitson invoked the organization’s hostility to Israel and the “pro-Israel lobby”; reports that deputy director Joe Stork’s prior “human rights” background primarily consisted of editing and writing for a radical left, anti-Israel publication; and the… [read post]
23 Apr 2010, 5:59 am
Weiss has longstanding journalist-source ties to Middle East Director Sarah Leah Whitson, who [in both senses] shares with him an interest in analyzing Jewish psychology. [read post]
28 Mar 2010, 11:14 am
When I asked the Middle East director Sarah Leah Whitson if HRW was ever going to release one, she said: “We have a draft, but I’m not sure I want to put one out. [read post]
9 Feb 2010, 9:33 am
What about, for example, the likes of HRW Middle East director Sarah Leah Whitson, who lobbied in the U.N. against Israel and for the Palestinians during the Second Intifada, just before she joined HRW? [read post]
