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Blame Canada: Six ways Saudi Arabia is hitting back
Canada's criticism of Saudi Arabia's human rights record has provoked a fierce backlash from the kingdom and its supporters
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Canadian 'prisoners of conscience'
The state-backed Al-Arabiya released a TV show about "prisoners of conscience" in Canada, decrying the persecution of Canadians for their political beliefs. Among those they cited were anti-feminist activist Jordan Peterson, Holocaust denier Ernest Zundel and former physics professor Denis Rancourt.
Zundel was reportedly detained for two years when a judge ruled that his ties to neo-Nazi groups posed a national security threat, but neither Peterson, nor Rancourt appear to have ever spent time in jail in Canada.
Hospital care stopped
The Saudi Press Agency said early on Wednesday that the kingdom had stopped all medical treatment programmes in Canada, citing Saudi Health attache in the United States of America and Canada Fahd bin Ibrahim al-Tamimi.
Read more at: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/saudi-canada-spat-2086671410
Rancourt is probably a climate change critic.
