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Outrage after U.S. ally 'beheadings-are-us' Saudi Arabia selected to head key UN human rights panel –Anger after Saudi Arabia 'chosen to head key UN human rights panel' –UN Watch executive director Hillel Neuer said the appointment, made in June, went unreported until now | 20 Sept 2015 | The United Nations is coming under fire for handing Saudi Arabia a key human rights role even though the Kingdom has “arguably the worst record in the world” on freedoms for women, minorities and dissidents. Critics, including the wife of imprisoned pro-democracy blogger Raif Badawi — sentenced to 1000 lashes for blogging about free speech — say that the appointment is “scandalous” and means that “oil trumps human rights”. The Saudis' bid emerged shortly after it posted a job advertisement for eight new executioners, to cope with what Amnesty International branded a “macabre spike” in the use of capital punishment, including [hundreds of] beheadings, this year.