Full Coverage: Saudi Arabia

21.04.2008 Saudi Arabia's male guardianship of women and policies of sex segregation stop women from enjoying their basic rights, says a Human Rights Watch report released today.

15.04.2008 Saudi Arabia had the highest number of executions per capita, followed by Iran and Libya, according to a new Amnesty survey that says 88 per cent of all known executions took place in China, Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the US.

09.04.2008 With judgement still awaited on a landmark judicial review of the decision to halt an inquiry into a Saudi arms deal corruption investigation, the UK Government has introduced draft legislation that would in effect prevent such a review in future.

12.02.2008 The number of beggars held by Saudi authorities increased by almost 6,000 last year, according to the country's Ministry of Social Affairs.
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11.02.2008 A court case contesting the legality of the UK Serious Fraud Office's decision to scrap its investigation into alleged bribery by BAE Systems to secure a huge arms deal with Saudi Arabia will be heard in London on Thursday.

07.12.2007 China was named Good Guy at the UN climate change negotiations in Bali on Friday, Malaysia was condemned to join Saudi Arabia, Japan and Canada in the Bad Guys group and Australia and India were told to make up their mind which category they wanted to be in.

06.12.2007 Abdul Rahman al-Lahem, the lawyer of a Saudi Arabian rape victim sentenced to 200 lashes and six months in prison, is being charged for negative statements he made about the Saudi judiciary's handling of the case.

05.12.2007 Saudi Arabia was given the Fossil of the Day Award by NGOs at the climate change conference in Bali, Indonesia, on Wednesday.

04.12.2007 Does Japan want to scrap the international agreement on climate change, the world's biggest climate action NGO network asked at the start of the second day of United Nations negotiations on a programme to tackle global warming.

27.11.2007 The Zionist Power Configuration defeats Big Oil, the Military Industrial Complex, the White House, and the Pentagon, says James Petras.

12.09.2007 NEW YORK, Sep 11 (OneWorld) - Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, the United States' two closest allies in its so-called "war on terror," violated international law this week when a key political opposition leader was forcibly flown out of one country and into to the other, a leading human rights watchdog has charged.

07.08.2007 The U.S. arms deal with Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Israel represents the abandonment of President Bush's democratic reform agenda in the region, says foreign policy analyst Matt Duss.

27.07.2007 NEW YORK, Jul 27 (OneWorld) - Calls for increased help from Washington are on the rise as global efforts to tackle the world's burgeoning water and sanitation crisis have largely failed to produce any meaningful results so far.

22.02.2007 An "alarming upsurge" in executions in Saudi Arabia, with at least 17 people already executed in 2007, was condemned by Amnesty today.

05.02.2007 Prison authorities in Saudi Arabia are being criticized for holding a mentally ill prisoner in solitary confinement. After a trial denounced as "unfair," Hadi Al-Mutif was sentenced to death in 1996 for having allegedly insulted Islam’s Prophet Muhammad.

15.01.2007 Transparency International today added its voice to demands that the British government and the Serious Fraud Office re-open the investigation into allegations of bribery in the Al Yamamah military contract between BAE Systems and the Saudi Arabian government.

10.10.2006 Two countries abolished the death penalty in 2006, but two others are considering re-instating the practice, which human rights advocates say is imposed in many countries despite appallingly low court standards.

20.06.2006 Following a legal ruling that three British men and a Canadian tortured in Saudi Arabia cannot sue the men responsible for their ordeal, the British government has been accused of ignoring the suffering of its own citizens while backing the servants of a state that routinely uses torture.

19.06.2006 More women are blogging in Saudi Arabia, getting the attention of censors and their conservative counterparts, reports Rasheed Abou-Alsamh.

24.05.2006 King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has reportedly asked Saudi papers to reverse their trend of publishing pictures of women.