War On Terror: Starbucks And Human Rights In Saudi Arabia
THE UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has praised the new Arab Charter on Human Rights - adopted by Saudi Arabia .
Yara, who has been married for 27 years, said she spent several hours in the women’s section of Riyadh’s Malaz Prison, was strip-searched, ordered to sign a confession that she was in a state of khulwa (a state of seclusion with an unrelated man) and for hours prevented from contacting her husband in Jeddah.
Her crime? Having a cup of coffee with a colleague in a Starbucks.
She arested by the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice. Really…
Posted: 6th, February 2008 | In: War On Terror Comments (2) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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February 13th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
…yet this will not stop Starbucks from keeping shop and collecting the profits from Saudi Arabia.
While the Starbucks at 3rd and Clayton in Cherry Creek(Boulder, CO)as well as a handful of other shops are selling coffee to customers who can then donate the coffee to troops in Iraq, corporate Starbucks does not want to get involved. They say it is too controversial and if they sent the coffee, it would affiliate themselves with the war which they are strongly against. Why would the folks in charge not want to get involved in this? Would this be aligning themselves with war supporters? Funny how Starbucks policies support the terrorists and those opposed to women’s rights to the hilt!
Retail Customer Relations 1-800-235-2883. Or go to http://www.starbucks.com and send them feedback there.
February 7th, 2008 at 5:25 am
Their treatment of women is abominable, but this is the least of our worries with the Saudis:
http://www.asecondlookatthesaudis.com