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A new report released by France 24 has found that many foreign domestic workers in Saudi Arabia are forced to work in terrible conditions, often with abusive employers. However, they are trapped because of a system that ties their working…

Human Rights Watch issued, Feb. 13th, a joint statement (signed by 23 other organizations) expressing their concerns about Saudi citizen Hassan al-Rabea who faces a death penalty if returned back to Saudi Arabia. “Returning him to Saudi Arabia would be…

The video clip of two non-Muslim women entering the courtyard of Prophet’s Mosque in Madinah, Saudi Arabia, wearing clothes against the dress code of the holy Islamic site, was widely circulated on social media platforms. The video clip angered social…

Allama Nazir Abbas Taqvi is reported to have been arrested by Saudi authorities in Makkah after he had performed Umra. This was disclosed by Allam himself in a post on Twitter. According to his own post appeared on social media,…

Saudi Arabian authorities have sentenced four more anti-regime activists to death in a fresh crackdown by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman against political opponents in the kingdom. The Committee for the Defense of Human Rights in the Arabian Peninsula (CDHRAP)…

The Specialized Criminal Court in Saudi Arabia issued a death sentence against Ali Muhammad Al-Rabee and Ali Hassan Al-Safwani, despite the fact that the Public Prosecution demanded sentences no more than twenty years in prison. Ali Al-Rabee (1975), a young…

Saudi forces have reportedly raided houses in the kingdom’s Shia-majority and oil-rich Eastern Province and arrested nearly a dozen young men. The Committee for the Defense of Human Rights in the Arabian Peninsula (CDHRAP) said in a statement that Saudi…

A human rights watchdog called on Morocco on Friday not to extradite a Shi’ite Muslim to his homeland of Saudi Arabia, citing fears he could face torture and an unfair trial there. Hassan Al Rabea, who has been in Morocco…

Shia Rights Watch Organization has expressed its strong condemnation of the Saudi authorities’ arrest of the Shia cleric, Sheikh Hassan Al-Khuwailidi, calling for his immediate release. In an important statement received by Shia Waves Agency, the organization said that it…

Activists circulated on Twitter, news of the Saudi regime’s arrest of the most prominent Shia preacher in Qatif, Sheikh Hassan Al-Khuwailidi, on flimsy charges. Activist Alaa Hashem wrote on his Twitter account: “The Saudi regime arrested the most prominent Shia…