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Demands for a UN condemnation of the Saudi judiciary for violating human rights
International and human rights criticism of the Saudi authorities escalated in the Human Rights Council against the backdrop of continuing…
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Academics call on PM Liz Truss to release Saudi women’s rights activists
Salma al-Shehab, 34, is an activist who is best known for supporting and speaking for women’s rights in Saudi Arabia…
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Index on Censorship: Saudi courts equate freedom of opinion with terrorist acts
Index on Censorship for Freedom of Expression considered that courts are weapons used to equate freedom of expression with acts…
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Saudi Arabia: Video shows police chasing and beating women at orphanage
Activists on Tuesday, August 29, circulated a video showing Saudi security men brutally assaulting a group of women at an…
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Rights group: Saudi woman jailed 45 years over social media posts
A Saudi woman has been jailed for 45 years for her social media posts, a rights group said citing court…
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The Times: Saudis sentence teenagers to death despite vow to stop
Saudi Arabia has resumed sentencing teenagers to death for protesting against the regime, despite promising earlier to end the practice,…
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Saudi preacher raises controversy after describing Mohammed bin Salman as “the Crown Prince of Muslims”
Saudi preacher Saleh al-Maghamsi sparked widespread controversy after publishing a tweet praising Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and describing…
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Saudi Arabia: Criminal Court sentences Shia women’s rights activist to 34 years over tweets
A Leeds University PhD candidate focused on healthcare and mother of two has been sentenced to 34 years in Saudi…
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Social experiment carried out among young children to abandon services to Imam Hussein, peace be upon him
Al-Hamza bin Abdul Muttalib (peace be upon him) mosque in the Saihat region of Qatif, Saudi Arabia, carried out a…
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Barriers around Kaaba removed after two years as new Umrah season begins
Saudi Arabia has decided after two years to remove the preventive barriers around the Holy Kaaba, allowing worshippers to once…
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