In a statement to “Al- Sharq” newspaper regarding the allegations of Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch against the Kingdom about the Saudi role in Yemen, Dr. Mufleh Rabiean Al-, the Chairman of the National Society for Human Rights and Dean of the Faculty of Law and Political Science at King Saud University, has said that such claims are heard from time to time and that there are people who work in these organizations who have certain political orientations or get their source of information from people who have specific political agendas. He adds saying that what has been raised by these organizations concerning the Saudi role in Yemen is deprecated; because the Saudi humanitarian part in this country exceeds what was offered by dozens of countries and humanitarian organizations. In addition, he has stressed on the role of Saudi Arabia and what was offered by King Salman Center for Relief and its support and treatment of cross-border as well as the measures that has been taken to help the hundreds of thousands of Yemeni community in Saudi Arabia and enable them to work  as these must be taken into account from these organizations.

Besides, the Chairman of the Society said that “the occurrence of errors during the battles is something that can happen during wars, and  the international humanitarian law has predicted such thing and set up a mechanism to deal with it, however, there is no prove that there was an intended excesses from the Saudi side in this war. On the contrary, there were excesses and abuses from the Huthi side and their followers such as the child recruitment and bombing the civilians in Taiz, but we have not seen a strong reaction from these organizations to stop such violations”. Moreover, Al Qahtani has added saying that “We have been briefed on some of the maps that show the spread of the Houthis and their followers in civil and sanitary places in order to use them in their fight which is considered a violation of the rules of international humanitarian law, however, the coalition forces have avoided bombing them, and we have noticed that the campaign against the Kingdom has begun some time ago, and we have explained such thing with many Western delegations”.

He has also stated that the attempt of the Secretary-General of the United Nations to insert the coalition forces, led by Saudi Arabia in Yemen, on the black list of the countries and armed groups that violate the rights of children during conflicts was a step in this way. In addition, Dr. Al-Qahtani has considered that such behavior is irresponsible from a UN official who is supposed to have enough mechanisms and means to give the right decision; because his decision was not based on correct basis, and now we hear such claims and reports from these organizations. He adds saying that we cannot equalize between those who recruit children and provide them with arms and uses schools, hospitals and military headquarters for storing weapons and kill civilians daily, and those who are keen to avoid any damage to the children or civilians and provide relief and assistance, and eliminate any military strikes if there is doubt that it will cause any harm to civilians or children.

Moreover, the Secretary General of the Society, Mr. Khalid Al-Fakhri has described these allegations as “ unfair bias that are far from all international human rights standards and that they reflect political intentions that do not care about the situation of human rights».

Al-Fakhri adds saying to Al-Sharq newspaper that « such organizations have a record of charges to the Kingdom, selecting specific topics, and disseminating false news, so as to baffle their followers from the obvious issues in the world”.

Al- Fakhri has also criticized the silence of such organizations about what is happening in Palestine from flagrant violations of human rights, and what is happening in Syria from shelling the civilian populations by explosive barrels, and what is happening in Iran from obvious excesses”.  He adds saying that “We did not hear a voice of such organizations about such human rights’ deplorable situations, but they are making unremitting efforts regarding the Saudi matter”.

Furthermore, Al-Fakhri has defended the Kingdom’s efforts in Yemeni affairs saying “the Kingdom’s government stood by the legitimacy against the putschists and armed militias that tried to seize power”. He adds saying “the Kingdom did not intervene basing on its willingness to intervene, but to support the Yemeni people and in response to the distress of the legitimate government in it”.

He has also accused the Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch that they are influenced by the political influences that are exercised by political people and organizations, which cannot be relied on”.