Why would ALQST organization attack Saudi Arabia? Who’s behind it?
ALQST: Targeted campaigns and fabricated reports against Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia and the other Arab states are facing an infamous information war, coming from entities that are willing to pay millions of dollars for abusive advertising campaigns or falsified reports, under the pretext of human rights abuses, killings, arbitrary arrests, torture or enforced disappearances.
We are continually surprised by the issuance of reports that are targeted, misinformed and even outright hostile by human rights organizations, at a time when the world has come to recognize and use stereotypes at various levels.
These reports are used by targeted media, which do not scrutinize and research, and are adopted and based on dialogs, seminars and analyzes, and monitored by research centers. All of a sudden, this snowball rolled and grew, giving birth to important figures to talk about human rights.
“Among those organizations that wear the cult of defending human rights is ALQST, founded in August 2014 by dissident Saudi officer Yahya Assiri, who also heads its monitoring and documentation department and is a member of its board of trustees.”
Al-Assiri was a Saudi Royal Air Force officer who studied in the UK in 2009 on a mission with the Air Force. However, he started taking part in some of the demonstrations and after his return to the Kingdom submitted his resignation and returned to Britain to found the ALQST organization.
As part of its efforts to incite strife and its attempts to mislead international public opinion, the organization used to issue false and fabricated annual reports, occasionally alleging violations of the rights of Saudis in Riyadh, to the extent that it attacked the Kingdom and sided with Canada in the well-known crisis between the two countries years ago.
It continues its attempts to discredit the kingdom with relentless social media campaigns using visual materials and occasional protests.
Established to attack Saudi Arabia, the organization has enjoyed the support of the Muslim Brotherhood and its funding countries, especially Qatar and Turkey. It participates periodically in the meetings of the United Nations Human Rights Council and holds public events, including the annual conference, in which a number of Saudi experts met to discuss various topics related to Saudi Arabia.
In short, Saudi Arabia is unfairly stigmatized in international human rights reports, it faces organized and aggressive campaigns aimed at demonizing and misrepresenting the country’s reforms, and it even faces publicity campaigns for distortions by Muslim Brotherhood organizations and Qatari and Turkish terrorist organizations.
