Kick the murderous Saudi dictator off Uber's board of directors (petition)

Uber must remove Saudi dictatorship from the Uber board and cancel the dictator's investment.

Dear MoveOn member,

In a new interview with "Axios on HBO," Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi called the murder of Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi "a mistake" and compared it to Uber mistakes with self-driving cars.

Khashoggi's death wasn't a mistake—it was murder, and the CIA has concluded that Saudi Arabia's dictator was directly involved in Khashoggi's murder.¹

Tell Uber that it's completely inappropriate to be working hand-in-hand with this brutal regime—even going as far as giving a representative from Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund a seat on its board of directors.

Uber must remove Saudi dictatorship from the Uber board and cancel the dictator's investment.

Saudi Arabia is ruled by a brutal dictatorship that has invested $3.5 billion in Uber, and its representative sits on the Uber board of directors.

The person responsible for Khashoggi's murder is Saudi dictator Mohammed bin Salman, one of Uber's biggest shareholders through Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund called Public Investment Fund.

Facing public backlash, the Uber CEO later backtracked from his comments to Axios, issuing a written statement: "I said something in the moment that I do not believe. When it comes to Jamal Khashoggi, his murder was reprehensible and should not be forgotten or excused."²

So then why is Yasir Al-Rumayyan still on the Uber board of directors? Al-Rumayyan is the managing director of the Saudi dictatorship's Public Investment Fund.

Uber must remove Saudi dictatorship from the Uber board and end the dictatorship's investments in the company. In addition to murdering Khashoggi, Saudi dictatorship has slaughtered thousands of civilians in Yemen, imprisoned women's rights activists, and jailed countless nonviolent human rights reformers.

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Thank you.

–Sunjeev Bery, Freedom Forward

Sources:

1. "Uber CEO backtracks after calling Saudi murder of Khashoggi 'a mistake,'" Axios, November 11, 2019
https://act.moveon.org/go/113038?t=10&akid=250324%2E10220574%2EtBO3Id

2. Ibid.

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