We, the undersigned organisations, call on The Boeing Company to take a principled stand on the human rights situation in Saudi Arabia, one of your biggest customers, and specifically to urge the Saudi authorities to lift the travel bans they have imposed on numerous peaceful dissidents, rights advocates and their family members...

... the Saudi authorities routinely impose arbitrary travel bans on family members of prisoners of conscience in a form of collective punishment. Such travel bans can be issued without due process, without specifying a reason, and without even notifying those affected until they try to travel outside the country...

The Saudi government’s practices stand in stark contrast with Boeing’s public commitment to the protection and advancement of human rights in its worldwide operations, and its pledge that “in everything we do and in all aspects of our business, we will... hold ourselves to the highest ethical standards”.  The Boeing Company should therefore use the position afforded by its current business dealings with Saudi Arabia to confront the authorities about the above mentioned injustices and rights abuses.

And so we, the undersigned organisations, call on Boeing to take a principled stand on the human rights situation in Saudi Arabia, and specifically to urge the Saudi authorities both publicly and privately to respect the right to free movement and lift their devastating travel bans on peaceful dissidents, rights advocates and their family members...