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David Cicilline: “This is an administration that has cozied up to Riyadh, sweeping aside gross human rights violations.”

On the recordJune 11, 2019
This is an administration that has cozied up to Riyadh, sweeping aside gross human rights violations.
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David Cicilline
Democratic · Rhode Island

Editor's note · Context

Cicilline accuses the administration of ignoring human rights abuses by Saudi Arabia.

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