Edited sentence: In the United Kingdom Owen Jones of The Guardian found her agreement to perform there questionable as "Carey has famously always had a devoted gay fanbase: in Saudi Arabia, homosexuality is punishable by death".On 31 January  Carey performed in Saudi Arabia.Previous to this Carey was under pressure to cancel this performance not only because of the murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi, but also because of the country's imprisonment of women's rights activists.This was not well received by the left wing press