(AFP) Austria’s foreign ministry said Wednesday that it would implement a vote by MPs calling for the closure of a controversial Saudi-funded center for religious dialogue in the capital Vienna.
MPs voted on Wednesday to demand the King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz International Centre for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue (KAICIID) be closed down following repeated criticism of Saudi Arabia’s human rights record.
The latest vote was prompted by a recent case in which an 18-year-old was sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia for alleged crimes committed when he was a child.
Austria’s foreign ministry said that it would comply with parliament’s decision and was “checking the necessary legal steps” in order to do so.
