Netflix has deleted an episode of a Comedy Show in Saudi Arabia, after the Kingdom has called on the streaming service. In the show, the US comedian Minhaj about the involvement of the Saudi crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi funny. the
The streaming service Netflix has taken under pressure from the saudi-Arabian Royal house, an episode of a Comedy Show in the country. In the Episode of the Satire with the title “Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj” the 33-year-old American comedian Minhaj about crown Prince Mohammed am Salman because of the assassination of the saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi, in Istanbul, as well as Riads military operation in Yemen.
“said We strongly support a worldwide artistic freedom and have withdrawn the result only in Saudi Arabia, after we get a final prompt,” a spokesperson for the streaming service. You need to keep to local laws. As the British newspaper the Financial Times reported was the reaction of the service to a statement from the information Ministry in Riyadh, according to which the Satire is in breach of a law on Cyber-crime. The Ministry was not first of all to make a statement accessible.
In the Episode In question says Minhaj, that crown Prince Salman have been subject to the death Khashoggis many as a Reformer. “I can’t believe that it takes the killing of a journalist of the Washington Post, so that everyone says: ‘Oh, he is, I think, not really a Reformer.’ The comedian continued: “while the thought that every Muslim Person you know: ‘Oh, you don’t say. He is the crown Prince of Saudi Arabia.'”
human rights activists have criticized the behavior of the streaming service. “Netflix’ statement, to support the artistic freedom, it means nothing if it (Netflix) is bowing to the demands of government officials,” wrote the head of the middle East and Africa division of Human Rights Watch, Sarah Leah Whitson, on Twitter. Saudi Arabia itself does not believe in freedoms for its citizens, “artistic, not political, humorous”.
The critics of the government Khashoggi was on 2. October, in the Consulate of his country in Istanbul by saudi Arabian agents have been killed. The killing had worldwide caused quite a stir and diplomatic turmoil. The U.S. Senate designated in a Resolution by the Saudi crown Prince Mohammed as “responsible for the murder”. This denies involvement. With its decision, the Congress chamber of
