The Comedy Festival in Er -Riyad in the capital of Saudi Arabia began on Friday, with leading comedians, including Dave ChappelKevin Hart, Bill BerrAziz Ansari, Louis K.K.Pete Davidson, Joe Koy and Jimmy Carr in a reliable list of performers. Nevertheless, the comics received a negative reaction from their peers for the fact that, according to reports, he accepted huge salaries in exchange for participation in an event that Human Raits Voch said It is used to deviate attention from “cruel repression of freedom of speech.”
On Monday, David Cross Published An application to his website, condemning some of his “heroes” to participate in the festival. “I am disgusted and deeply disappointed in all this rough thing. The fact that the people that I admire with an unfair talent will justify this totalitarian part for … what, the fourth house? Boat? More sneakers? ” I wrote a cross. “We will never be able to take seriously that these comedians complain (unless we complain that we do not support enough torture and mass executions of journalists and activists of the LGBQT world here, in the States, or that we do not terrorize enough Americans, fly to our buildings).”
He continued to call “Dave, Louis and Bill, and Jim”, adding: “It is obvious that you guys are not a pile of what the rest of us think, but how can anyone of us perceive anyone again, someday again? All your essence about the “abolition of culture” and “freedom of speech” and all this shit?
Cross slammed comics for “literally, the most repressive regime on Earth. They have slaves for the sake of all of us !!! “
In the press release published last week, the guard group Human Rights Watch called on comedians participating in the festival, calling the Saudi authorities “freely detained Saudi dissidents, journalists and human activists.” The statement emphasizes that the festival takes place on the seventh anniversary of the murder of 2018 Washington Post Reporter Jamal Khashoggi, who is us Intelligence assessment ended killed by agents of the government of Saudi Arabia At the Consulate of Saudi Arabia in Istanbul.
In the video, comedian Mark Maron also Convicted The festival that he “from the people who brought you on September 11.” Meanwhile, Shane Gillis criticized the event festival, recently statement He abandoned the “significant bag” after he accepted the “principal stand”.
Atsuko Okatsuka took over Thread To share, she abandoned the offer to speak at the festival at Er -iad. “Money comes directly from the Crown Prince, who actively executes journalists, PPL with non -commercial drug crimes, bloggers, etc. Without a proper legal procedure,” she wrote in a post. “Many of“ You can’t say anything else! ” »Comics hold a festival … They had to adhere to the rules of censorship about the types of jokes that they could do.”
