Saudi Arabia criticized over human rights by 36 countries
|(CNN)Thirty-six countries have signed an open letter criticizing Saudi Arabia’s human rights record.
The letter, read Thursday at a meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council, is the first collective rebuke of the kingdom.
It urges Saudi Arabia to release human rights activists jailed for “exercising their fundamental freedoms” and to “disclose all information available” about the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.