Saudi Arabia
Index on Censorship: Saudi courts equate freedom of opinion with terrorist acts
United Kingdom
September 20, 2022
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
Saudi
September 1, 2022
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
Saudi
August 31, 2022
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
Saudi
August 23, 2022
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”
Saudi
August 20, 2022
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
Saudi
August 16, 2022
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…
Social experiment carried out among young children to abandon services to Imam Hussein, peace be upon him
Saudi
August 15, 2022
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…
Barriers around Kaaba removed after two years as new Umrah season begins
Saudi
August 3, 2022
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
August 3, 2022
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…
Two men reenact part of Ghadir Event to prove that everyone present at the event should have heard the Prophet
Articles
July 19, 2022
Two men reenact part of Ghadir Event to prove that everyone present at the event should have heard the Prophet
In the historic Ghadir Khum area, located between Mecca and Medina, a Saudi man named Ali Ibrahim Al-Harz stood at…