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Summer 2017
DEFENDERS
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Introduction
Under present conditions in the world, when international community is
oriented toward giving real credit to identity of nations and compliance with
international rules, certain governments with ideologically dictatorial rules
are trying to block the path to more humanization of international values and
regulations.
At the present time, various factors from unprecedented crimes committed
by Daesh in the Middle East to the climate change, are making an effect on
the fate of humanity, the right to life, and actually all kinds of basic human
rights. Under these conditions, the rise of terrorism in all its aspects and
against human integrity in the world, is a very dangerous development and a
historical regression. However, an even worst aspect of terrorism has been an
amazing change of course in which certain governments have been sponsoring
terrorism.
At the present juncture when all international bodies have put their entire
energy in the service of developing and promoting human rights and are
endeavoring to realize universal values, creating, developing and sponsoring
terrorism by governments has dealt a drastic blow to the international system
and has cast serious doubts on its nature, function and final goals.
While lending its full support to opposition groups trying to topple the Syrian
President Bashar Assad’s government since the beginning of the crisis in
the country up to the present time, Saudi Arabia has never ceased to arm
the aforesaid groups in this conflict, whose side effects have now spread to
the entire world. On the other hand, establishment of schools, which have
been promoting extremist and Wahhabi ideas in Pakistan and Afghanistan for
long years, clearly prove that this country has turned into a state sponsor of
terrorism. The teachings of these schools, among other things, have led to such
incidents as September 11, 2001 attacks in New York, and have also caused
insecurity to spread to eastern regional borders of Iran. Almost all terrorists,
who have played a role in terrorist attacks across the world during past years,
Systematic Violation of
Human Rights by Saudi Arabia
Seyyed Hossein Mousavifar
Researcher in International Law