Human Rights Watch is reporting Saudi Arabian authorities have arrested more than 160 peaceful dissidents since February, but the international community has largely ignored the crackdown. Over the past month, two top Obama administration officials—U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and National Security Adviser Tom Donilon—visited Riyadh. Neither said anything about the arrests of peaceful protesters. Christoph Wilcke of Human Rights Watch said, “As the list of Saudi political prisoners grows longer, the silence of the U.S. and the E.U. becomes more deafening.”