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Index on Censorship: Saudi courts equate freedom of opinion with terrorist acts
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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…
Saudi Arabia: Video shows police chasing and beating women at orphanage
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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…
Rights group: Saudi woman jailed 45 years over social media posts
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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…
The Times: Saudis sentence teenagers to death despite vow to stop
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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,…
Saudi preacher raises controversy after describing Mohammed bin Salman as “the Crown Prince of Muslims”
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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…
Saudi Arabia: Criminal Court sentences Shia women’s rights activist to 34 years over tweets
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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…
Barriers around Kaaba removed after two years as new Umrah season begins
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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…
Yemen’s warring parties agree only to renew two-month truce, U.N. says
Yemen

Yemen’s warring parties agree only to renew two-month truce, U.N. says

Yemen’s warring sides agreed to renew a two-month truce expiring on Tuesday, the United Nations envoy said, despite international pressure…
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