"Flag of Saudi Arabia" by Unknown - the actual flag. Licensed under CC0 via Commons.
By Brian Tersin, On Monday, EthicalOil.org reported an attempt by the government of Saudi Arabia to prevent the airing of a television advertisement the organization prepared and has run. The spot begins by showing a picture of a young woman with two strips of masking tape across her mouth. Other pictures, of Saudi Arabia, follow. The voiceover, done by a woman, begins by saying that Canada buys more than 400 million barrels of oil from Saudi Arabia each year. She then goes on to list some of the human rights violations against women that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia engages in. On September 6, Ethical Oil was advised by Telecaster Services, a branch of the Television Bureau of Canada, that Telecaster received a cease and desist order from a large law firm retained by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The order “demands” that the television ad be withdrawn from the airwaves. According to Ethical Oil, the organization made several requests to the lawyers to send the the documents that were forwarded to Telecaster Services. The lawyers have so far refused to provide the documentation to them. Source: Bikya Masr, Image: commons.wikimedia.org
