Early Day Motion on NUFC win sparks Saudi human rights debate northeastbylines.co.uk/culture/spor...

Champions League Polluter Spotlight: PSG vs. Newcastle United ⚽ Both funded and owned by petrostates, let’s have a look at what these clubs would rather you didn’t see 👀 Our game must have no place for oil autocracy propaganda ✊ www.instagram.com/p/DUDwj48iMg...

Financial crisis in Saudi Arabia and cuts to projects & investments does not bode well for #NUFC @NewcastleCC, MPs & fan groups have kept quiet about human rights abuses & now money is running out. www.worldfinance.com/wealth-manag....

#NUFC’s human rights abusing owners announce “the failure of a reckless, grandiose project borne by the public.” $billions wasted on NEOM will surely affect funds available for Newcastle United. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

On-line NUFCFAS MEETING - TUESDAY JANUARY 27th *TONIGHT* at 7pm -------------------------------------------------------- FOSSIL FREE FOOTBALL + NUFCFAS PLANS FOR 2026 ------------------------------------------------------ LINK 👉 meet.google.com/whf-yact-aqp NO SAUDI TOON!

We recently held our Annual Conference, bringing together experts to discuss strategies for countering rights abuses in Saudi Arabia. Read some of the highlights here: ➡️ alqst.org/en/post/alqs... And watch the video here: ➡️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nf8... Thanks to all who spoke and attended!

Saudi Arabia is weaponising its anti-cybercrime law to silence free expression. Arresting six people for “provoking public opinion” and threatening them with 5 years in prison and $800k fines. www.ft.com/content/e8e2...

Saudi Arabia bombs Yemen over weapons shipment it claims UAE sent to separatists. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Saudi aid worker Abdulrahman al-Sadhan remains forcibly disappeared, serving 20 years for peaceful satire on @X. Over 15k have now signed the petition calling for his release. #FreeSadhan Add your name here: www.globalcitizen.org/en/action/sa...

Saudi Arabia: Record Number of Executions in 2025. 356 Executions Break Prior Record Second Year in a Row. ⁦‪ www.hrw.org/news/2026/01...

Please sign (UK residents) and share. Petition to put pressure on Saudi Arabia regarding executions and the death penalty. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Saudi Arabia's authorities are carrying out executions at horrifying, record levels. For those in the UK, sign this petition calling on the government to use its influence to press Saudi Arabia to impose a moratorium on the use of the death penalty. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

#KeirStarmer has a bad record when it comes to sucking up to Mohammed bin Salman. He even invited the Saudi dictator to watch a football match with him. northeastbylines.co.uk/news/opinion...

Asian Winter Games 2029: The event, set to be hosted by Saudi Arabia, has been postponed indefinitely. No official reason has been given, though reports cite delays in the construction of a ski resort. Let me just repeat that: a ski resort… in the desert! www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articl...

Saudi dissident awarded $4.1 million by UK court for hacking, assault 'by Saudi Arabia' . Saudi Arabia had tried to throw out his lawsuit, arguing it had state immunity, but its argument was rejected by the High Court in 2022. www.reuters.com/world/uk/sau...

The message is clear: don’t ask for change; you’ll get what I decide to give. My view on the hollow tokenism of MBS’s so-called reforms⬇️

‘Don’t they have mercy?’: A mother on losing her son in a record year of Saudi executions. Essam al-Shazly is the latest foreign national to die in a ‘horrifying’ surge in capital punishment under the rule of Mohammed bin Salman. #SaudiArabia www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

@newcastleunited.com owners show no mercy to non-violent offenders as they break their own gruesome execution record.

The Saudi regime which owns ⁦‪#NUFC‬⁩ shows no mercy to non-violent offenders. “In December 2024, there were 33 Egyptians on the wing, including Shazly, all facing execution for non-violent drug offences. Just over a year on, just six are alive.” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

“To watch the crown prince’s promotional video is to be immersed in a distinctively Saudi form of arrogance, blending religious triumphalism and royal grandiosity.” Sadly, North East politicians & media fell for the same baseless bombast. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/a...

Human rights abusing #NUFC owners now in financial trouble 👇🏾 ‘The projects controlled by the PIF rely on funds from the sale of hydrocarbons, and with the oil price under pressure, there is a squeeze on liquidity,’ www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/saudi-f...

NUFCFAS Campaign meeting - Tomorrow Frank Huisingh, the founder of Fossil Free Football will be there to talk about their campaign and FIFA's partnership with Saudi Aramco, the world's biggest polluter and a company directly linked to human rights violations. meet.google.com/whf-yact-aqp

Mohammed Bin Salman's monumentally expensive folly is a lesson for North East politicians & media who kept their mouths shut about the Saudi regime's horrendous human rights abuses in exchange for vague & unrealised promises of "massive investment" ...... ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...

This is a fascinating read. Also Newcastle's Labour Council has absolutely shamed itself. It's antidemocratic in the extreme some of the behaviour evidenced by officers (now ex) of the council.

Mohammed Bin Salman's monumentally expensive folly is a lesson for North East politicians & media who kept their mouths shut about the Saudi regime's horrendous human rights abuses in exchange for vague & unrealised promises of "massive investment" ..... ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...

The airline sponsorship deals of elite European teams competing in the Champions League generate a combined total of 14.7 million tonnes of carbon emissions per year. www.fossilfreefootball.org/2024/05/30/p...

Saudi Arabia, who ensured that the words “fossil fuel” were not mentioned in the final text of the agreement. Saudi Arabia, historically aligned with the U.S. in resisting strong fossil-fuel phaseout wording. northeastbylines.co.uk/news/environ...

NUFCFAS will be holding a campaign meeting on Tuesday, January 27th, at 7pm If you wish to attend or you have any thoughts about furthering our campaign, click on the link for the meeting. 👇🏾 calendar.app.google/ZpQsfNPNK2rY...

On-line NUFCFAS MEETING - TUESDAY JANUARY 27th at 7pm ----------------------------------------------------------------- FOSSIL FREE FOOTBALL + NUFCFAS PLANS FOR 2026 --------------------------------------------------------- ALL WELCOME - MESSAGE FOR LINK ---------------------------------------

Aramco is the world’s largest oil producer, worth around $1.6 trillion. It is 98.5% owned by the Saudi Arabian state. #NUFC Chairman Yasir al-Rumayyan is also Chairman of Aramco.... www.fossilfreefootball.org/2025/11/28/f...

In 2024, FIFA announced a sponsor deal with Saudi state oil company Aramco for the 2026 and 2027 World Cup. As supporters' groups, it's our turn to support them and oppose this deal. form.typeform.com/to/xNFEjF9s

A group of former professional football players and others in men’s football, led by David Wheeler, have come together to call upon FIFA and other football associations to take serious climate action. Read their piece here. www.fossilfreefootball.org/2025/06/11/f...

Over 130 professional female players from 27 countries with over 2,700 caps between them have come together to call for an end to FIFA's sponsorship deal with Saudi Aramco. athletesoftheworld.org/fifa-x-saudi...

"Manahel al-Otaibi is serving a five-year prison sentence because of her choice of clothing and support for women’s rights." Instead of doing sportswashing videos NUFC Trust should be using its influence to call for the freedom for Manahel. #FreeManahel www.globalcitizen.org/en/action/re...

“Celebrities, athletes, and others seeking to cash in on Saudi whitewashing of its human rights record should reconsider based on the number of executions during 2025 to determine whether the money is worth being associated with this killing spree,” www.hrw.org/news/2026/01...

💯 -- Support #NUFC while opposing the Saudi dictatorship.

#NUFC owners👇🏾 "Saudi Arabia's Safety from the State score of 4.2 out of 10 suggests that many people are not safe from one or more of the following: arbitrary arrest, torture and ill-treatment, forced disappearance, execution, or extrajudicial killing." rightstracker.org/country/SAU

“No reply” – a letter to Rachel Reeves northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...

Newcastle United's Saudi owners promised 'massive investment' in the city. Instead, the city's leaders have made fools of themselves. Full article 👇🏾 www.bigissue.com/opinion/newc...

She has spoken up, and said the bare minimum. Looks like she is happy to try to play both sides, but we have seen that this is absolutely failing Labour in the polls. I will shed no tears when people like her lose their cushy jobs. I will be sad to see what might replace her, but it's her fault.

I am sure that Chi taking these gifts will help the people in her constituency that rely on the country's biggest food bank. LOL. She cold've given one of them a ticket? She wouldn't watch NUFC under Mike Ashley, she's happy to do so now though. Zero consistency.

Chi made herself a vocal supporter of people who welcomed the Saudi state into Newcastle. TF fanzine, supporter's Trust, she was all too keen to uncritically support these groups without seeing/caring about the end game. Money over anything else. Looks like it paid off for her though, so far.

"Dictatorships such as Abu Dhabi and Saudi Arabia should be disqualified from owning clubs because of their appalling human rights records. However, we also believe that NO state should be allowed to own a football club." www.nufcfansagainstsportswashing.org.uk/states-have-...

Life in Saudi Arabia: Part 27 November 2025 northeastbylines.co.uk/news/world-n...

Life in Saudi Arabia: Part 27 November 2025 northeastbylines.co.uk/news/world-n...

Chi Onwurah, the MP for Central Newcastle and once a vocal critic of Saudi human rights record, accepted from the Saudi owned club expensive tickets to the Carabao Cup Final at Wembley (£500), Carabao Cup celebration event and parade (£1700), northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...

Saudi Arabia’s PIF: buying football, media, and influence to control narratives and politics northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...

Tyneside is engulfed by a dark fog of cognitive dissonance enabling politicians, local media, & most fans to pretend that having one of the world’s worst & most vicious human rights-abusing regimes on the planet as owners of #NUFC has nothing to do with ⚽️ www.bigissue.com/opinion/newc...