A Saudi journalist close to the ruling family has fired back at protests in Egypt condemning Saudi-led air strikes against Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen.
“Do not tell me it is freedom of opinion or that those are Muslim Brotherhood; you protest, you get killed, this is the Egyptian police rule,” Jamal Khashoggi, the general director of the news channel Al-Arab satellite, tweeted late Sunday.
The general director was referring to mini-protests outside the Saudi Arabian embassy in Egypt on Saturday which condemned strikes by the military coalition led by the kingdom in support of internationally-recognized, Arab-backed Yemeni President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi.
Khashoggi, an ardent supporter of the Saudi intervention in Yemen, had advised Egypt against proceeding with air strikes on Islamic State locations in Libya, which it launched mid-February in retaliation for the beheadings of 21 Egyptian workers there.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
