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| Keywords: un saudi politics cartoon ridiculous burka white background Cartoons taunting Saudi Arabia's membership of the United Nations human rights council have gone viral on social media after the kingdom executed 47 people in one day. While the regime's interior minister claimed most of the 47 executed had been involved in the deadly 2003 and 2004 al-Qaeda attacks, a prominent Shia cleric, Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, was also put to death. He was a vocal supporter of the mass anti-government protests that flared up in the kingdom's Eastern Province in 2011. Cartoons highlight anger at Saudi Arabia's position as head of key UN human rights panel Some social media users have started questioning the kingdom's place on the UN human rights council Ashley Cowburn Sunday 3 January 2016 www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/saudi-arabia... Cartoons taunting Saudi Arabia's membership of the United Nations human rights council have gone viral on social media after the kingdom executed 47 people in one day. While the regime's interior minister claimed most of the 47 executed had been involved in the deadly 2003 and 2004 al-Qaeda attacks, a prominent Shia cleric, Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, was also put to death. He was a vocal supporter of the mass anti-government protests that flared up in the kingdom's Eastern Province in 2011. Cartoons highlight anger at Saudi Arabia's position as head of key UN human rights panel Some social media users have started questioning the kingdom's place on the UN human rights council Ashley Cowburn Sunday 3 January 2016 www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/saudi-arabia... | ||||
