The recruitment of the Spaniard as ambassador reflects the country’s ambitious expansion plan, which aims to use tennis to boost the image-cleansing process it has embarked on with the spectacles of football, golf and Formula 1 The 2022-2023 Amnesty International report on Saudi Arabia associates the country with concepts such as “torture”, “mistreatment”, “abuse”, “rape”, “discrimination against women”, “collective executions”, “forced evictions”, “persecutions”, “arbitrary and unfair trials”, “inhumane conditions”, “inadequate action against the climate crisis” and “the death penalty”, among many others that directly violate fundamental human rights.
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