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Saudi Arabia Backtracks After Controversy Over Clip On "Extremist Ideas"
Saudi Arabia's state security agency distanced itself on Tuesday from a promotional video that categorized feminism, homosexuality and atheism as extremist ideas, blaming it on an action by individuals.
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Two More Women Activists Arrested In Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia has arrested two more women's rights activists, in an "unrelenting crackdown" just days before the kingdom ends a decades-long ban on female motorists, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday.
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Thousands Of Pakistanis Detained And Sentenced To Death In Saudi Denied Rights: Report
Thousands of Pakistanis imprisoned in Saudi Arabia and dozens sentenced to death in the ultra-conservative kingdom have been denied their legal rights to a defence, a report in Islamabad warned Wednesday.
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Saudi Police Arrest Woman For Posting Picture Without Veil On Twitter
Police in the Saudi capital said on Monday they had arrested a woman for taking off her veil in public and posting pictures of her daring action on Twitter.
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Saudi Arabia Allows Women to Contest Local Elections
Saudi Arabia allowed women to register to stand in local elections on Sunday, in a historic first for the ultra-conservative kingdom.
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Saudi Arabia Frees Activist Friend of Blogger Raef Badawi
A woman who co-founded the Saudi Liberal Network Internet discussion group with blogging activist Raef Badawi has been freed after about three months in prison, her daughter said today.
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First Beheading Under New Saudi King Stirs Attention
Saudi Arabia on Monday executed a man convicted of raping several girls in a case that has captured the kingdom's attention and marks the first beheading carried out under the newly enthroned King Salman.
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Saudi Blogger To Be Publicly Flogged For Insulting Islam
A Saudi blogger who was sentenced last May to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes will be publicly flogged for the first time after Friday prayers outside a mosque in the Red Sea coastal city of Jiddah, a person close to his case said on Thursday.
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Syrian is the 75th Person Executed in Saudi Arabia in 2014
Saudi Arabia today executed a Syrian convicted of drug smuggling, bringing the number of locals and foreigners beheaded in the kingdom this year to 75 despite international concerns.
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Saudi Arabia Jails Human Rights Activist For 15 Years
A Jeddah court sentenced prominent Saudi rights lawyer Walid abu al-Khair to 15 years in prison on Sunday on charges that included seeking to undermine the state and insulting the judiciary, the state news agency reported.
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Saudi Arabia Backtracks After Controversy Over Clip On "Extremist Ideas"
Saudi Arabia's state security agency distanced itself on Tuesday from a promotional video that categorized feminism, homosexuality and atheism as extremist ideas, blaming it on an action by individuals.
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Two More Women Activists Arrested In Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia has arrested two more women's rights activists, in an "unrelenting crackdown" just days before the kingdom ends a decades-long ban on female motorists, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday.
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Thousands Of Pakistanis Detained And Sentenced To Death In Saudi Denied Rights: Report
Thousands of Pakistanis imprisoned in Saudi Arabia and dozens sentenced to death in the ultra-conservative kingdom have been denied their legal rights to a defence, a report in Islamabad warned Wednesday.
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Saudi Police Arrest Woman For Posting Picture Without Veil On Twitter
Police in the Saudi capital said on Monday they had arrested a woman for taking off her veil in public and posting pictures of her daring action on Twitter.
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Saudi Arabia Allows Women to Contest Local Elections
Saudi Arabia allowed women to register to stand in local elections on Sunday, in a historic first for the ultra-conservative kingdom.
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Saudi Arabia Frees Activist Friend of Blogger Raef Badawi
A woman who co-founded the Saudi Liberal Network Internet discussion group with blogging activist Raef Badawi has been freed after about three months in prison, her daughter said today.
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First Beheading Under New Saudi King Stirs Attention
Saudi Arabia on Monday executed a man convicted of raping several girls in a case that has captured the kingdom's attention and marks the first beheading carried out under the newly enthroned King Salman.
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Saudi Blogger To Be Publicly Flogged For Insulting Islam
A Saudi blogger who was sentenced last May to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes will be publicly flogged for the first time after Friday prayers outside a mosque in the Red Sea coastal city of Jiddah, a person close to his case said on Thursday.
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Syrian is the 75th Person Executed in Saudi Arabia in 2014
Saudi Arabia today executed a Syrian convicted of drug smuggling, bringing the number of locals and foreigners beheaded in the kingdom this year to 75 despite international concerns.
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Saudi Arabia Jails Human Rights Activist For 15 Years
A Jeddah court sentenced prominent Saudi rights lawyer Walid abu al-Khair to 15 years in prison on Sunday on charges that included seeking to undermine the state and insulting the judiciary, the state news agency reported.
