joined by day is special welcome to africa why were algerians so whole against the idea of push iftikhar running for a fifth term well first i would like to mention that. what the time of the sabbath beautifully something or decide something this is the version of the journey regime isn't it because i was hit by a serious throw some six years ago and his not able to do so since then. is living under a political crisis even longer than that and the people of syria was not able to protest against this because they were too intimidated because they were constantly reminded of the civil war in the nine hundred ninety s. was with over two hundred thousand thousands of dead and now what changed the people are protesting against the three fifths candidacy for a fifth since over seven weeks because they have broken the wall of fear and because they have no no longer ready to accept the situation and to be humiliated by being ruled by a picture of a president and also because of the constant the. situation of their lives inside the country ok so we're talking about a resignation that comes in the

arabia that's after the executions of a least thirty seven mainly shia muslims this week arsalan iftikhar is a human rights lawyer and senior fellow for the bridge initiative at georgetown university he says more economic pressure needs to be put on saudi arabia. trillium no you. know we're going to continue to keep turning a blind eye on the saudi arabia saudi arabia with actually listed as a country a particular concern of united states state department in two thousand and six for thirteen years they received an annual waiver which precludes them from having any sort of her meaningful economic sanctions against them even though they considered each year while i was human rights by reading country and so again there needs to be a political will both here in the united states or the other countries as well to have more economic pressure on the. persecuting minorities in their country we can't you know the murder and assassination of martin shocked you not because as a nation pretty for she has a recent political activist go on. but this is the time for governments to really you know stand

about the saudi executions and the call by the us a cia or a for the state department to act arsalan iftikhar is a human rights lawyer and senior fellow for the bridge initiative at georgetown university he joins us now via skype from sterling virginia thanks very much for being with us. let me ask you first of all about this. core by a by the u.s. cia or after how significant is it and will it make any difference in that in terms of putting pressure on on saudi arabia overall. well when the short answer is no and the long answer are you know what we saw here recently inside of your if you know. thirty thousand activists thirty four of whom who are shia i'm sure that this is their target in crackdown against you know minority in saudi arabia most estimates show that only ten to fifteen percent of the tell you population is ninety two percent of the people executed. the assassination in and murder of a journalist jamal khashoggi to be increased pressure from western governments not just you know commissions on international religious freedom and really connecting economic sanctions on the only

arsalan iftikhar as a human rights lawyer and senior fellow for the bridge initiative at georgetown university he says more economic pressure needs to be put on saudi arabia. not with the petroleum no you know keep flowing from saudi arabia where it's going to continue to keep turning a blind eye on the saudi arabia saudi arabia with actually listed as a country of particular concern by the united states state department in two thousand and six for thirteen years they received an annual waiver which precludes them from having any sort of her meaningful economic sanctions against them even though they're considered a two year one human rights by reading country and so again there needs to be a political will both here in the united states or within other countries as well to have more economic you know pressure on the saudis. persecuting minorities in their country we can let you know the murder and assassination of martin shop do you not because that's an issue pretty for she has a recent political activist go on. this is the time for governments to really you know stand firm and say. look sau