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UNITED STATES - MAY 26: Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., walks through the Senate subway in the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, May 26, 2021. (Photo by Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

U.S.: Suspend Military Aid to Egypt in Wake of Menendez Indictment for Corruption by Egyptian Government

September 23, 2023

(Washington D.C., August 30, 2023) – Former Legislative Assistant Rashid Hallaway and his lobbying firm Hobart Hallaway & Quayle Ventures (HHQ) are sportswashing the Saudi government's human rights abuses by lobbying for Saudi government-owned LIV Golf, said Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) in a new report released today.

U.S.: Former Legislative Assistant Rashid Hallaway Sportswashing Saudi Abuses by Lobbying for LIV Golf

August 30, 2023

UNITED STATES – OCTOBER 12: Rep. Ben Quayle, R-Ariz., participates in a news conference on Wednesday Oct. 12, 2011, to introduce the "Northern Arizona Mining Continuity Act of 2011," which will stop the Interior Department from banning mining in a vast area of Arizona that represents the nation's second largest domestic source of uranium ore. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

U.S.: Former Representative Ben Quayle Sportswashing Saudi Abuses by Lobbying for LIV Golf

Saudi Arabia: Government Retaliates Against U.S. Citizen's Lawsuit by Detaining and Prosecuting Five Family Members in Terrorism Court

A picture shows the Israel Aerospace Industries stand at the Dubai Airshow in the Gulf emirate, on November 15, 2021. - More than 80,000 visitors are expected at the November 14-18 Dubai Airshow, which will be held with mandatory masks and social distancing, officials said. (Photo by Giuseppe CACACE / AFP) (Photo by GIUSEPPE CACACE/AFP via Getty Images)

U.S.: Adam Emanuel, Lobbyist for Government-Owned Israel Aerospace Industries NA, Skirts Foreign Agent Requirements

Italian-Egyptian researcher Patrick Zaki arrives at a courthouse in Egypt's northern Nile delta city of Mansoura for a trial hearing on June 21, 2022. (Photo by Mohamed EL-RAAI / AFP) (Photo by MOHAMED EL-RAAI/AFP via Getty Images)

Egypt: Leading Activists, Lawyers Pull Out of National Dialogue After Rights Advocate's Sentencing

A picture taken on November 5, 2017 in Riyadh shows a general view of the closed main gate of the Ritz Karlton hotel in Riyadh. - A day earlier Saudi Arabia arrested 11 princes, including a prominent billioniare, and dozens of current and former ministers, reports said, in a sweeping crackdown as the kingdom's young crown prince Mohammed bin Salman consoliates power. (Photo by FAYEZ NURELDINE / AFP) (Photo by FAYEZ NURELDINE/AFP via Getty Images)

U.S.: Sanction Saudi Minister and Close MBS Adviser for Supervising Ritz-Carlton Torture and Shakedowns of Saudi Citizens

Israel: Brig.-Gen Naama Rosen-Grimberg Arbitrarily Detained an Elderly US Citizen in West Bank Prison

BEIT HASHITA, ISRAEL - SEPTEMBER 06: A general view of Gilboa prison where six Palestinian prisoners managed to escape from the prison overnight on September 6, 2021 near Kibbutz Beit HaShita in the Gilboa region, Israel. The prisoners, who include Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade leader Zakaria Zubeidi, are believed to have escaped through a tunnel overnight. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)

US: Deny Entry to Israeli President's Military Secretary for Wrongful Detention of American Citizen

"How can we progress as a nation when those offering constructive feedback and (often humorous) dissent are banished?"

Jamal Khashoggi