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Nearly two million pilgrims have so far arrived in Saudi Arabia from all parts of the world to perform the pilgrimage during the current Umrah season. The air, land, and sea ports in the Kingdom recorded the arrival of a…

Saudi Arabia plans to expand an initiative to green up mosques across the Kingdom as part of its ambitious climate and environmental initiatives, said a senior government official.  “For this initiative, we plan to have 100 mosques in five steps,” Hamoud Alotaibi,…

Saudi Arabia will now allow people with single-entry visit visas to remain in the kingdom for up to three months, compared to a month in the past. The Council of Ministers announced on Tuesday that it had also approved the…

International human rights organizations have called for intensifying efforts to pressure the Saudi authorities to release prisoners of conscience who are detained over demanding their fundamental freedoms.  The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention published on its website on…

The Vice-President of the European Saudi Organization for Human Rights, Adel Al-Saeed, confirmed that the Specialized Criminal Court in Saudi Arabia issued three new death sentences against young men from Qatif. Al-Saeed indicated in his latest tweet, that the total…

The Committee for the Defense of Human Rights in the Arabian Peninsula warned of the seriousness of the humanitarian and human rights situation in Saudi Arabia, after the escalation of death sentences by the Specialized Criminal Court in Riyadh, against…

The Specialized Criminal Court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced Shia cleric Sheikh Mojtaba Al-Nimr to 12 years in prison without legal justification. A local news agency reported that the military forces had arrested Sheikh Mojtaba Al-Nimr, on June 6, 2021,…

At least three young men are at risk of imminent execution in Saudi Arabia after an appeal court confirmed their sentences between June and October this year, Amnesty International said yesterday, Monday. Following the grossly unfair trials, the organization called…

Saudi Arabia has announced that a male guardian, or a mahram, is no longer needed to accompany a female pilgrim performing Hajj and Umrah. The Saudi Minister of Hajj and Umrah, Dr. Tawfiq Al-Rabiah, announced that a woman can now…

Muslims around the world, regardless of their sects, are preparing to commemorate the blessed birth anniversary of the Noble Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) and his grandson Imam al-Sadiq (peace be upon him), which coincides with the…