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| Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz bin Salman Al Saud |
Sonoran Policy Group has inked a $2M six-month pact to advocate for the release of Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz bin Salman Al Saud with US, UK, France and European Union officials.
Robert Stryk, founder/executive chairman of SPG, has close ties with the Trump administration.
Paris-based Pakistani businessman Hashim Mughal, a former associate of Prince Salman, hired SPG for the effort. It began work on May 15.
Saudi Arabia authorities arrested Prince Salman, whom the New York Times profiled as a "billionaire philanthropist with influential connections" throughout the world, in Jan. 2018.
He spent a year in a maximum-security facility before being transferred to home detention in a Riyadh villa with his father, who also is under arrest.
The Times reported that Saudi Arabia's defacto ruler 34-year-old Prince Mohammed bin Salman may have ordered the arrest of Prince Salman due to a fit of jealousy.
FleishmanHillard has signed on to promote the United Arab Emirates' participation in the 54th World Economic Forum set for Davos to US journalists. 
Colangelo & Partners has picked up ProChile, which promotes the export of Chilean goods and services throughout the world.
The Ukrainian Orthodox Church has hired Amsterdam & Partners to fight the effort by Ukraine’s parliament to ban the church for its historic ties to Russia.
Former Qorvis CEO Michael Petruzzello has registered as a $60K a month consultant for the Saudi Embassy in Washington.
Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck has signed a six-month $300K pact to supply government relations and strategic counsel to the US mission of the Syrian Democratic Council.
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