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Amnesty International has called on Newcastle boss Eddie Howe and anyone involved with the club to speak up about human rights violations in Saudi Arabia, after 81 people were executed in the Gulf state at the weekend.
Eighty per cent of the club is owned by the Saudi Arabian-led Public Investment Fund (PIF), which Newcastle and the Premier League insist is independent from the Gulf state itself. However, its chairman is Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman, who is also Deputy Prime Minister.
The executions happened on Saturday for crimes ranging from killings to belonging to militant groups. It is the largest mass execution carried out in the country’s recent history.
Following his game against Chelsea this weekend, Newcastle manager Howe was asked by the media about events in Saudi Arabia. While he said he was «well aware» of what was going on, he insisted his focus was on football, which has drawn criticism.
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What about the british empire… puppets
Newcastle United are owned by Isis terrorist, I wouldn't like to be standing next to them in the terrace, they could blow themselves up any second.
I'm not even a Newcastle fan but what is he to do or say. What is every single person employed by Newcastle to do. From the manager to the laundry man or the cook? Quit because their club has been bought by the Saudis? Blame the prem league if anybody.
Not a farmer's league, a sellout league
???? Oh yeah we still looking for WMDs huh …. Murder runs the globe u daft fools
81 terrorists belonging to isis and al qaeda and houthi
HUMAN RIGHT ISSUES IS A WEAPONIZED TERM THAT IS BEING USED WHENEVER IT IS FIT TO DO SO
So be it , let's go legitimate.
how is this Edie Howie's Business?? is he a Politician or a manager?
I don't think Newcastle hired Eddie to answer questions about whats going on in KSA its absolutely unfair
Eddie Howe has played the Talk Sport ignorance card.
81 terrorist
Nothing to do with Eddie Howe and he does not need to comment !! These CUNTS criticising Howe would be better directing their concerns through other channels !! TOSSERS !!
Amnesty Comedy gold..
Anybody asking pep or man city about the UAE and there human rights or the involvement in bombing the crap out of yemen.
How many Executions are in the USA?
The Premier League should be speaking out first but what of the human rights of the innocent men, women and children that were murdered by the 81 men?
Look closer at this organisation
The sooner we're no longer dependent on oil the better
Be aware Amnesty support terrorists and know absolutely nothing about human rights. If this is such a bad thing lets put it all to bed, A minimum of 13 teams in the premier league should be banned as states such as China, Middle east (all of them have same rules) U.S., Russia. They all have things we don't agree with. At least the Saudis don't try to hide it. Lets just sort football out first as it is corrupt and games are fixed. Once we've done that we can then look at ownership.
One big sham all a propaganda game! Sport is now dead
This EPL one day will stop to watch it is full of politics we need free football not these nonsense
What the world don't realise is the USA is just as bad for there death penalty. NOW DO PEOPLE CALL THE USA GORVERMENT OUT FOR THERE HUMAN RIGHT NO
Are Amnesty International asking all U.K. MSM Broadcasters and press, SKY, BBC. The Guardian, The Times , ITV. BT Sport etc etc etc. To boycott coverage of Qatar 2022 World Cup ???? Hypocrisy of the highest order !! UK companies owned or majority controlled by Saudi Arabia.. British Petroleum ..British Telecom. Savoy hotel group. Uber. The Independent news group.Just to mention a few of hundreds.. Are the righteous UK Gov. and Media going to sanction and ban these companies ????? ???????????Careful what you wish for hypocrital virtue signalling gob shites !!!
Yet another witch hunt on a Football club that has no control over Geo politics !! Give your heads a massive wobble F.F.S.????????? And lets not even open up the Chinese can of worms !!! Lots of fat greedy fingers in that pie !!!
Why don't ask American who owens arsenal ? and other clubs owned by British people also…like they were all saints ?….
Funny how this current round of selective outrage at NUFC's association with the Saudis arose when the latter refused to take American calls on the ongoing Russian situation. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a fan of murderous religious lunatics and deluded sports fans, but something's a little fishy here.
All they do is speak up and never really do anything about anything
Why should the manager speak about it? You don't question your bosses. The Premier league and FA should've asked these questions before allowing the sale. Or is it happening now because Saudi Arabia is refusing to produce more oil for the west?
Uk ?? government hunting nowadays foreign club owners. Firstly Chelsea and now Newcastle, excuse me first of all you should have checked before they own the club and not after they invest their money. Most corrupted government in the word.
NGOs like Amnesty Int’l are plain nonsense. Just ignore them.
Are Amnesty also calling for Klopp and Rangnick to comment on Guantanamo?
What is a manager to do they hired him tf leave these managers alone that's not there job
Next the Glazzers…they helped fund the Iraq war…
Why on earth would he make a comment about something he has no knowledge of.
When America sentences people to the death penalty no one bat's an eye but when these Arab countries do the same its a humanitarian issue. How about mentioning that the people executed were convicted of murdering innocent people, involved in terrorism within the Saudi Kingdom which killed law enforcement, and so on. What the media does is blatantly omit certain pieces of information to obscure public opinion. If us the general public had all the information then we can formulate our own opinions. Shout outs to those people too lazy to do their own research and get spoon fed but bias media ?
funny how this kind of thing only happens when one team becomes 10 times richer than every other team
Our human rights were abused on Sunday……when they didn’t check VAR……
All the people who were executed were killers and isis. Look up the facts before getting driven by media.
Pi55 off
We need to look at ourselves look at our government sponsoring terrorist Zionist terrorist supporting Israel mass murders but that's okay
It's is shambles how they allow the acquisition of clubs like that by sheikhs oligarhs etc, good they sanctioned Chelsea but what about Newcastle or City??! Or Brit government gonna suck up tyranic goverments just for cheap oil. These Arab governments are much worse than Russia! They chopping up their own people with immunity and that's ok as long as they give your government cheap oil??!
pot calling kettle black ………………..
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does Sky sports go to Saudi for the boxing and F1 yet the amnesty guy doesn't ask about it but uses Sky to get his point across ? it's all very strange
How is it a human rights violation? Doesn't the UK govt hang people for big crimes?
Don't mix sport with politics and religion
We all know that the Saudi government is oppressive. But asking Eddie Howe to make a political statement is wrong. It's better to boycott the world cup rather than forcing people to make political statements
Its unfair to ask a sports manager to speak against such an issue..it should start from the politicians first