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The Guardian
January 21, 2018
Instead, for the “west”, arms exports to Saudi Arabia, migration deals with Turkey and trade deals with China have been prioritised over speaking out on human rights. And the consequences of silence and complicity have been manifest – from slaughter and starvation in Yemen to forced repatriation of theÃÂ ...
NEWS.com.au
January 21, 2018
“Partly, against the background of the Arab uprisings (protests against the repression of free speech, human rights abuses, economic mismanagement, corruption and stifling of political dissent elsewhere in the region), Saudis are acutely aware that they don't want those sort of protests in their country,” saysÃÂ ...
Channel NewsAsia
January 19, 2018
DUBAI: Human Rights Watch accused Saudi Arabia on Thursday of violating international humanitarian law in Yemen and stepping up arrests and prosecutions of activists seeking reform or voicing peaceful dissent. In its World Report 2018, which reviews human rights practices in more than 90 countries,ÃÂ ...
Human Rights Watch
January 19, 2018
(Beirut) – Saudi Arabia announced reforms during 2017 to enhance women's rights, including ending a driving ban, but stepped up arrests and prosecutions of activists seeking reform or voicing peaceful dissent, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2018. As the leader of the eight-nationÃÂ ...
Amnesty International
January 18, 2018
ACPRA is an independent human rights organization which was dissolved by the Saudi Arabian authorities in 2013. Last week, UN experts called for the release of all those detained for peacefully exercising their rights in Saudi Arabia in what they described as a “worrying pattern of widespread andÃÂ ...
Amnesty International UK
January 16, 2018
“The Egyptian authorities must now stop arbitrarily detaining people and halt the brutal crackdown on human rights. ... and Ziad Abu el-Fadl, participated in a protest in the city of Alexandria against the Egyptian government's decision to hand over control of two islands, Tiran and Sanafir, to Saudi Arabia.
KTVQ Billings News
January 16, 2018
(CNN) -- Here's a look at Saudi Arabia, a large, oil-rich Middle Eastern country bordering Yemen, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Iraq, Jordan, the Red Sea .... August 25, 2016 - The United Nations issues a report calling for an investigation into possible human rights violations in Yemen.
Red Pepper
January 16, 2018
A coalition of human rights organisations has written to Theresa May, calling on her to cancel the visit of Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammad bin ... Since the ongoing bombardment began in 2015, the UK has licensed ã4.6 billion worth of arms to Saudi Arabia, including ã2.7 billion worth of ML10à...
teleSUR English
January 14, 2018
... ones die needlessly from treatable illnesses because they do not have access to medical care," International Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt said in a statement. Since the Saudi-led war which started in 2015, the U.S. and U.K. has supplied nearly US$5 billion worth of arms to Saudi Arabia.
Voice of America
January 13, 2018
The Saudi-led coalition entered Yemen's conflict in support of the country's government in March 2015. Since then, more than 10,000 civilians have been killed and over 40,000 injured. The U.N. and other human rights groups blame most of these casualties on the coalition's aerial and ground campaignÃÂ ...
Times of India
January 8, 2018
NEW DELHI: Saudi Arabia has given its nod to India's plan to revive the option of ferrying Haj pilgrims via sea route to Jeddah, union minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said in a statement on Monday. Naqvi made the ... Saudi probably tops the list of countries committing human rights violations.Sugath Palan.
Times of India
January 8, 2018
... in Tehran echoed the Iranian authorities' stance, which alleges that foreign powers _ including regional rival Saudi Arabia _ stirred up unrest linked to the ... The United States had called the meeting, portraying Iranian protests as a human rights issue that could spill over into an international problem.
Sharonherald
January 8, 2018
Saudi Arabia is even less free than Iran, according to the human rights group Freedom House. Of all the governments on earth, the Christian rights group Open Doors ranks it the 14th-worst in persecuting Christians. ''Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world without any church buildings,'' it says – anÃÂ ...
CNN
January 7, 2018
(CNN) A group of 11 Saudi princes was arrested Thursday after staging a sit-in at a palace in Riyadh, the kingdom's attorney general said Saturday. The princes were protesting a recent royal order that "halted payments by the state to members of the royal family to cover their electricity and water utility billsÃÂ ...
Arab News
January 6, 2018
JEDDAH: Persecution of the Rohingya minority of Myanmar represents one of the worst examples of ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity, the Independent Permanent Human Rights Commission (IPHRC) of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) said after a fact-finding mission toÃÂ ...
Chicago Tribune
January 5, 2018
Saudi Arabia is even less free than Iran, according to the human rights group Freedom House. Of all the governments on Earth, the Christian rights group Open Doors ranks it the 14th-worst in persecuting Christians. “Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world without any church buildings,” it says — anÃÂ ...
Human Rights Watch
December 19, 2017
This month, Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who has gotten credit for many of these reforms, ended up winning Time Magazine readers' poll for Person of the Year. But, in celebrating these moves, many seem happy to gloss over the young prince's more problematic track record.
Los Angeles Times
December 17, 2017
To the editor: I condemn, along with Saudi Arabia's Prince Turki al Faisal, President Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital. (“No, Mr. Trump, Jerusalem is not the capital of Israel,” Opinion, Dec. 15). But when Al Faisal's reasoning begins by condemning President Truman's very recognition ofÃÂ ...
IDN InDepthNews | Analysis That Matters
December 31, 1999
GENEVA (IDN) – Despite being elected as member of the Human Rights Council at the end of 2016, Saudi Arabia has “continued its practice of silencing, arbitrarily arresting, detaining and persecuting human rights defenders and critics,” according to a group of top United Nations human rights experts.
Human Rights Watch
December 31, 1999
(Beirut) – Saudi authorities have held a prominent cleric for four months without charging or questioning him, Human Rights Watch said today. Saudi authorities detained the cleric, Salman al-Awda, on September 7, 2017, and later imposed arbitrary travel bans on members of al-Awda's immediate family.
UN News Centre
December 31, 1999
2 January 2018 – United Nations human rights experts deplored Saudi Arabia's continued use of counter-terrorism and security-related laws against human rights defenders and urged the release of all those detained for peacefully exercising their rights. “The rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly areÃÂ ...
The Guardian
December 31, 1999
In a statement on the second anniversary of Saudi Arabia's last mass execution, of 47 adults, UN human rights experts and groups including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have decried the latest crackdown on dissent, which began after Prince Mohammed bin Salman became the newÃÂ ...
FinalCall.com News
December 20, 2017
“The Israelis and the United States have regularly referred to an alliance against Iran—that includes Israel, the United States and Saudi Arabia,” said Bill Fletcher, racial justice and international human rights activist. Israel has been angling for all out war in the Middle East along with America and primarilyÃÂ ...
WikiTribune
December 20, 2017
Saudi Arabia said it intercepted a ballistic missile fired by Yemeni rebels from the Houthi movement towards its capital city Riyadh on Tuesday. ... Harry Ridgewell; Human Rights Watch researcher Nick McGeehan has spent years uncovering abuses of the migrant workers building stadiums in Qatar for theÃÂ ...
Al-Arabiya
December 20, 2017
Haifaa al-Mansour, Mahmoud Sabbagh, Reem al-Bayyat and other Saudi directors worked on their movies in Saudi Arabia and their teams mainly consisted of Saudis. However, the movies were screened outside the kingdom because someone decided on behalf of people that cinema corrupts morals,ÃÂ ...
StepFeed
December 20, 2017
Saudi Arabia has permanently shut down its only land border with Qatar, as tensions between the kingdom and the emirate persist. ... According to Arab News, Prince Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has said he would not be surprised if a court one day ruledÃÂ ...
CNN
December 20, 2017
I of course would have pleaded against a favorable vote. There is no ambiguity in the matter." "We must be determined to double-down on our efforts to promote women's rights as well as the universal values of human rights," he said. Others were even more critical. "Electing Saudi Arabia to protect women'sÃÂ ...
Human Rights Watch
December 20, 2017
Since March 2015, Saudi Arabia has led a coalition of Arab countries against the Houthi armed group, which controls much of Yemen. There has been nothing bold or transformative about his coalition's relentless bombing of Yemen's civilians while denying to hold any of his own forces accountable for theirÃÂ ...
Arab News
December 19, 2017
JEDDAH: The National Society for Human Rights has affirmed its support for anti-discrimination laws. In a recent tweet, the NSHR said: “The principle of #No_discrimination is a comprehensive principle in international human rights law. It has been affirmed by all major human rights treaties.” The NSHR isÃÂ ...
Politico
December 19, 2017
Today, "in the case of US allies such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the Philippines, the [Trump] Administration is fully justified in emphasizing good relations for a variety of important reasons, including counter-terrorism, and in honestly facing up to the difficult tradeoffs with regard to human rights," Hook writesÃÂ ...
Los Angeles Times
December 17, 2017
To the editor: I condemn, along with Saudi Arabia's Prince Turki al Faisal, President Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital. (“No, Mr. Trump, Jerusalem is not the capital of Israel,” Opinion, Dec. 15). But when Al Faisal's reasoning begins by condemning President Truman's very recognition ofÃÂ ...
Deutsche Welle
November 27, 2017
Saudi Arabia announced the alliance in December 2015 to fight ... law with vague and broad definitions of terrorism, Human Rights Watch said.
teleSUR English
November 27, 2017
Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud welcomes British .... failure to condemn Saudi Arabia's appalling human rights record, but ...
Middle East Eye
November 26, 2017
The rise in Saudi Arabia's lobbying efforts come as the kingdom's ... failure to condemn Saudi Arabia's appalling human rights record, but now ...
Arab News
November 26, 2017
'A Nation without Violations' campaign gains ground across Saudi Arabia ... various sectors, including human rights and justice organizations, ...
Arab News
November 25, 2017
The commission held in-depth discussions on issues such as Israeli human rights violations in the occupied Palestinian territories. (AN photo)Â ...
Human Rights Watch
November 24, 2017
(New York) – Saudi Arabia's new counterterrorism law includes vague ... in some cases punishable by death, Human Rights Watch said today.
Business Insider
November 15, 2017
A Lebanese woman holds a placard supporting the outgoing Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri to return from Saudi Arabia during the Beirut ...
Vox
November 9, 2017
But human rights groups like Amnesty International and Human Rights .... He's happily partied with the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and ...
Center for Research on Globalization
November 9, 2017
As FAIR pointed out, hyping “reform” in Saudi Arabia has a been regular ... Recently, Ken Roth, head of Human Rights Watch, called Nicolas ...
HuffPost
November 9, 2017
Saudi Arabia was reacting to a missile fired on November 4 from Yemen at ... have spoken to Saudi Arabian officials, including Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir. ... Human Rights Watch suggested the Council consider sanctions ...
Human Rights Watch
November 9, 2017
Saudi Arabia: Corruption Arrests Raise Due Process Concerns ... over corruption allegations raises human rights concerns, Human Rights ...
The Times
November 8, 2017
An Egyptian human rights lawyer and prominent critic of President Sisi ... controversial decision to hand two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia, ...
Slate Magazine
November 7, 2017
But let's assume that Sophia's shiny-new Saudi Arabian citizenship has ... it's not just marketing and that Saudi Arabia has granted rights to Sophia, ... For example, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was ...
Human Rights Watch
November 7, 2017
Saudi Arabia responded to the attack by claiming Iran, which it ... said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch.
ReliefWeb
November 3, 2017
The President of Human Rights Council urged Governments to ..... also had failed to condemn violence in Yemen caused by Saudi Arabia, ...
PRI
November 3, 2017
"I want to thank very much the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia," she said in a .... Lab, says she doesn't see a movement to give robots human rights.
The Verge
October 31, 2017
Giving AI anything close to human rights would allow firms to “pass off both ... like Saudi Arabia would offer a robot citizenship, even as a stunt.
Business Insider
October 26, 2017
UK Defence Secretary Michael Fallon has said criticism of Saudi Arabia's human rights record is "not helpful" for Britain's arms sales to the ...
Center for Research on Globalization
October 26, 2017
Bombshell NSA Memo: Saudi Arabia Ordered Attack on Damascus ... of the U.K.-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights quoted in a story ...
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