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Activists have appealed to singer Mariah Carey to cancel an upcoming performance in Saudi Arabia over the Saudi-led war on Yemen and the jailing of women’s rights advocates.
The American songwriter is set to appear at a concert on Thursday on the sidelines of the kingdom’s first international golf tournament, alongside Dutch DJ Tiesto and Jamaican rapper Sean Paul.
The internationally active NGO, Code Pink: Women for Peace (CodePink) called on Carey not to “artwash” Riyadh, and urged her and the other performers to cancel the show.
“Doesn’t she know Saudi Arabia is one of the most repressive and murderous regimes on the planet?” women’s activist group CodePink said in a statement launching its petition to call off the concert. “Doesn’t she know that women fighting for their rights are tortured in Saudi prisons? Doesn’t she know that Saudi Arabia is bombing school children in Yemen?”
Saudi Arabia is spearheading a coalition of Arab states that is bombing Yemen to forcefully reinstate the resigned regime of former Yemeni President Abd Rabbu Mnasour Hadi. The Saudi-led military campaign has killed thousands of people and wounded hundreds of thousands more.
The Saudi-led war has also displaced millions of Yemenis, destroyed the infrastructure, pushed the country into the brink of famine and caused the world's worst humanitarian catastrophe.
Source: Yemenwatch.net
