Sarah Leah Whitson

The des­ig­na­tion is not just in­hu­mane, but also po­lit­i­cal­ly harm­ful for the US and its in­ter­na­tion­al stand­ing.

A new law­suit aims to bring those re­spon­si­ble for the mur­der of the promi­nent Sau­di jour­nal­ist to jus­tice.

More needs to be done for the phys­i­cal and psy­cho­log­i­cal well­be­ing of po­lit­i­cal ex­iles from the Mid­dle East.

The ad­mis­sion of guilt by the Sau­di au­thor­i­ties needs to be ac­com­pa­nied by the re­lease of po­lit­i­cal pris­on­ers.

Ex­clud­ing par­ties that have com­mit­ted abus­es may well mean that there would be no one left with whom to ne­go­ti­ate.