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The abduction-torture-murder of Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey must have been planned as a kind of perfect crime in which the journalist would mysteriously disappear without a trace. It went “wrong” because the death squad dispatched by the Saudi royal court – which (...)
The Saudi ruling elite has relied on US backing, and military support, for its regional policies. But since the Trump administration, none of their regional policies has met with success.
What makes the Middle East distinctive is oil, not Islam. The hydrocarbon wealth of the Arab-Iranian Gulf (...)
The Persian Gulf may be on the brink of a new regional war.
Is a major war about to break out in the Persian Gulf for the fourth time in less than forty years?
For better than two weeks, the world has watched transfixed as Muhammad bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’s all-powerful crown prince, has (...)
The high-level purge in Saudi Arabia has more to do with consolidating power than fighting corruption.
Many western analysts have referred to Saudi Arabia’s thirty-two-year old crown prince, Muhammad bin Salman (MBS), as the “de facto ruler” of the Saudi kingdom, acting in the name of his (...)
In the face of irresponsible government policies, an increasing number of Saudi nationals and foreign workers are confronted with unprecedented economic hardship. They won’t stay quiet much longer.
JEDDAH - The vibrant Saudi city and the country’s economic hub. Well, not anymore. It feels a bit (...)
Trump has already ordered greater US support for the Saudi war effort in Yemen, but the deputy crown prince will be primarily bidding for US backing for his confrontation with Iran.
Many people view Donald Trump as the most dangerous man on the planet, but next week he flies to Saudi Arabia (...)
To,
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud King of Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia
Respected King,
WORLD: Open letter from 22 ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’ Laureates to the King of Saudi Arabia for freedom of poet Ashraf Fayadh
The poet, art curator and Palestinian refugee Ashraf Fayadh, was sentenced to death (...)
Why this is important
A 45 year old, unnamed Sri Lankan migrant domestic worker and mother of 3 has been sentenced to death by stoning in Saudi Arabia for “adultery.” Zina - that is any sexual relations outside of marriage - are Hudud crimes or “crimes against God.”
The man in the alleged (...)
Saudi Arabia sentences maid to death by stoning for adultery - but the man she slept with will escape with 100 lashes.
• Sri Lankan maid, 45, was convicted of adultery in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
• She was ordered to be pelted to death with stones after admitting crime
• But her lover was handed (...)
A verdict of death has once again been delivered in the great Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and this time it was rather a question of morality than that of murder. The unnamed Sri Lankan woman has been found guilty of fornication and has therefore been sentenced to be stoned to death. Such is the (...)
Carol Ann Duffy, Paul Muldoon and Adonis among writers signing PEN letter calling on Saudi courts to free Palestinian poet convicted of apostasy, and to allow freedom of expression.
‘It is not a crime to hold an idea,’
Poets from around the world are lining up in solidarity with the (...)
Black Daesh, white Daesh. The former slits throats, kills, stones, cuts off hands, destroys humanity’s common heritage and despises archaeology, women and non-Muslims. The latter is better dressed and neater but does the same things. The Islamic State; Saudi Arabia. In its struggle against (...)
It is the duty of all revolutionaries in Syria and elsewhere to be in solidarity with the people in Saudi Arabia struggling against the reactionary and authoritarian dictatorship of the Saoud. Just like in Syria and Egypt the protesters demanding Freedom and Dignity are accused of being (...)
(Beirut) – Saudi Arabia’s new terrorism law and a series of related royal decrees create a legal framework that appears to criminalize virtually all dissident thought or expression as terrorism. The sweeping provisions in the measures, all issued since January 2014, threaten to close down (...)
Saudi Arabia was yesterday drafting up to 10,000 security personnel into its north-eastern Shia Muslim provinces, clogging the highways into Dammam and other cities with busloads of troops in fear of next week’s “day of rage” by what is now called the “Hunayn Revolution”.
Saudi Arabia’s worst (...)
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