{"id":393279,"date":"2019-01-18T06:44:57","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T05:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-saudi-risks-revolution-over-basic-rights-uk-mp\/"},"modified":"2019-01-18T06:44:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T05:44:57","slug":"presstv-saudi-risks-revolution-over-basic-rights-uk-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-saudi-risks-revolution-over-basic-rights-uk-mp\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Saudi risks \u2018revolution\u2019 over basic rights: UK MP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Saudi Arabia will eventually face a \u201crevolution\u201d unless it decides to introduce reforms and stop abusing people\u2019s freedom of expression, a British lawmaker has warned the kingdom.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Crispin Blunt, a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) and chair of a parliamentary panel on detained Saudi women activists, advised Riyadh leaders to realize that a civil society was a necessity to save their monarchy system of government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe alternative to a consultative monarchy is an absolute monarchy and down that route lies disaster and eventually revolution,\u201d the MP wrote in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/voices\/saudi-arabia-detained-women-rights-activists-review-panel-crispin-blunt-a8731001.html\">op-ed for <em>The Independent<\/em><\/a><em> <\/em>published on Thursday<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The lawmaker (pictured below) leads a detention review panel (DRP) of British MPs who have called on Riyadh to let them meet with women\u2019s rights activists the kingdom has arrested as part of its longstanding crackdown against proponents of civil rights reforms.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"312\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20190117\/e44f0407-0aff-4f64-8fa8-8f574c69e3d1.jpg\" width=\"555\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Blunt hopes that his good ties with Saudi Crown Prince&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2019\/01\/17\/586086\/UK-MP-Blunt-DRP-Saudi-revolution-women-activist\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia will eventually face a \u201crevolution\u201d unless it decides to introduce reforms and stop abusing people\u2019s freedom of expression, a British lawmaker has warned the kingdom. Crispin Blunt, a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) and chair of a parliamentary panel on detained Saudi women activists, advised Riyadh leaders to realize that a civil society [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":393280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-393279","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}