Saudi Arabia: Public Investment Fund Meeting Whitewashes Abuses

By Human Rights Watch

(Beirut) – Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) is sponsoring an investment conference in Miami and further whitewashing the country’s egregious human rights record, five human rights groups, including Human Rights Watch and Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN), said today. The PIF’s Future Investment Initiative Institute (FII Institute) Priority Summit is to be held in Miami from February 19 to 21, 2025.The PIF has facilitated and benefited from human rights abuses and the Saudi government regularly uses it to whitewash its own abuses. The PIF is the founding partner…

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