but then i guess you don't go there for the food. i kinda like the idea that you came up with these things with only a kettle for help. It would appear that our government has identified a lucrative line in selling our skills at locking people up to any country that might be more flush in fossil fuels than human rights."Įssentially grayling seems to be lending out his lack of expertise to other countries now?!! The Gulf Centre for Human Rights has said of Oman: “Torture has become the state’s knee-jerk response to political expression.”Ī couple of weeks after Grayling visited Saudi, his junior minister Lord Faulks made similar visits to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, again promoting a business relationship over justice.
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The regime responded by imprisoning dozens of alleged organisers. This absolute monarchy was another country that experienced protests for democratic reform during the so-called Arab spring. Just Solutions International is also negotiating a contract with Oman. Saudi Arabia is not the only potential beneficiary of Grayling’s entrepreneurial spirit.
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In September, Grayling visited the kingdom in person to sign a memorandum of understanding to enshrine cooperation between the two countries in the operation of their judicial systems. One of its first initiatives was to bid for a £5.9m contract that would help improve the efficiency of the Saudi prison service. "Last year, the Ministry of Justice, under Chris Grayling, established a trading body to sell the expertise and intellectual assets of the National Offender Management Service (Noms) to overseas clients.