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The Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced a mechanism for obtaining a “personal visit” visa, which enables visitors to enter the Kingdom’s lands to visit their friends or acquaintances who are Saudi citizens, with the possibility of traveling between the…

Saudi authorities have reportedly arrested the wife and daughter of a jailed dissident, as a crackdown led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman against political opponents, scholars, human rights activists and pro-democracy campaigners widens in the kingdom. According to media…

The United Nations has condemned the executions carried out by the Saudi authorities continuously, calling for an immediate suspension. A spokeswoman for the UN human rights office said 17 men had been executed in Saudi Arabia since November 10 on…

Over the last two weeks executions have been taking place almost daily in Saudi Arabia after the authorities ended a 21-month unofficial moratorium on the use of the death penalty for drug-related offences. Since 10 November, 17 men have been…

Today, religious and popular circles in the Saudi city of Qatif denounced the authorities’ demolition of the Shia Al-Harif Mosque in the city, and offering its land for sale in a public auction under the supervision of the General Court.…

Saudi Arabian authorities have deported hundreds of Ethiopian migrant workers after keeping them for months in detention centers across the oil-rich kingdom under conditions so degrading that they amount to ill-treatment. According to a report published by ‘The New Khalij’…

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…