{"id":141113,"date":"2020-04-21T15:51:21","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T13:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/04\/21\/amnesty-say-premier-league-risks-being-a-patsy-on-newcastle-takeover\/"},"modified":"2020-04-21T15:51:21","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T13:51:21","slug":"amnesty-say-premier-league-risks-being-a-patsy-on-newcastle-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=141113","title":{"rendered":"Amnesty say Premier League &#039;risks being a patsy&#039; on Newcastle takeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amnesty says league must provide through justification for dealClub on verge of sale to Saudi-backed consortium for \u00a3300mAmnesty International has written to the Premier League saying it \u201crisks becoming a patsy\u201d unless it takes a serious look at Saudi Arabia\u2019s human rights record with regard to the takeover of Newcastle.The north-east club are reportedly on the verge of being sold to a Saudi-backed consortium which involves crown prince Mohammed bin Salman for around \u00a3300m. It was reported on Tuesday that a non-refundable deposit of \u00a317m has already been paid to current owner Mike Ashley as part of the deal. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2020\/apr\/21\/amnesty-international-say-premier-league-risks-being-a-patsy-on-newcastle-united-takeover-football\" target=\"_blank\">Amnesty say Premier League &#039;risks being a patsy&#039; on Newcastle takeover<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amnesty says league must provide through justification for dealClub on verge of sale to Saudi-backed consortium for \u00a3300mAmnesty International has written to the Premier League saying it \u201crisks becoming a patsy\u201d unless it takes a serious look at Saudi Arabia\u2019s human rights record with regard to the takeover of Newcastle.The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}