Saudi Arabia Human Rights

Noura al-Faiz: First Saudi Female Cabinet Member Bad On Women's Rights?

Guardian | Posted 06.08.2009 | World

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The appointment of Saudi Arabia's first female cabinet minister was seen as a big step for a country where a strict interpretation of Islam bars women...

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"Menahi": Saudi Movie Screened In Riyadh First Time In 30 Years

AP | DONNA ABU-NASR | Posted 06.08.2009 | World

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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — For the first time in three decades, Saudis in the nation's capital did something that most Westerners take for granted _...

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View From Cairo: What About the People, Obama?

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 06.04.2009 | World

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Obama's inevitable message to the Muslim world: the U.S. will look the other way at your governments' repressive policies because a working relationship with them is more important than peoples' rights.

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Judge Hamad Al-Razine, WIFE SLAP RULING

AP | ABDULLAH SHIHRI | Posted 05.12.2009 | World

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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — A Saudi judge told a conference on domestic violence that a man has the right to slap a wife who spends money wastefully ...

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Saudi Judge: Slapping Your Spendthrift Wife Is OK

AP | ABDULLAH SHIHRI | Posted 05.11.2009 | World

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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — A Saudi judge told a conference on domestic violence that a man has the right to slap a wife who spends money wastefully ...

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Saudi Arabia Clamps Down On Female Gyms

Reuters | Posted 04.30.2009 | World

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"Let her get fat!" is the slogan women in Saudi Arabia are using to challenge a clampdown on female-only gyms....

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Saudi Arabia: US Lied About Peres Meeting Saudi King

Haaretz | Posted 04.30.2009 | World

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Saudi Arabia demanded on Thursday that the U.S. State Department retract a claim that King Abdullah met Israel's president last year, in a rare public...

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Saudi Girl, 8, Divorces Husband, 50

AP | HADEEL AL-SHALCHI | Posted 04.30.2009 | World

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CAIRO — An 8-year-old Saudi girl has divorced her middle-aged husband after her father forced her to marry him last year in exchange for about $...

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Saudi Human Rights Group Criticizes Religious Police For Discriminating Against Women

AP | DONNA ABU-NASR | Posted 03.23.2009 | World

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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — A Saudi human rights groups has strongly criticized the kingdom's religious police, judiciary and security agencies in a ...

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All-girl Rock Band Rocks Jeddah

Steve Anderson | Posted 11.27.2008 | Entertainment

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(The Accolade, by Edmund Blair Leighton) Among the certainties of life are Death & Taxes. Oh, and that repression will always breed rebellion. ...

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Barber Insults Islam, Receives Saudi Death Sentence

Matthew and Peter Slutsky | Posted 05.27.2008 | Home

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The Turkish national working in Saudi Arabia allegedly insulted God in an argument outside his shop. A Saudi blogger who reported the incident received a prison sentence and a fine.

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The Gift That Keeps On Giving: Memories of Frenemies

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.19.2007 | Politics

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"Western" feminist organizations are frequently criticized for keeping mum on the issue of women's rights in Islamic countries. "How hypocritical of ...

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Report: Saudi King Pardons Rape Victim

Associated Press | Posted 12.17.2007 | Politics

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Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has pardoned a female rape victim who had been sentenced to 200 lashes for being alone with a man at the time of the atta...

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Perturbing the Judiciary? Hurting the Country's Image? Shame on You!

William Fisher | Posted 12.04.2007 | Politics

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Here we have another kind of terror: Terror in the Courtroom. It is a kind of terror that violates the most basic tenets of what America is supposed to stand for: the rule of law.

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Saudi Women Petition For Right To Drive

Washington Post | Posted 09.24.2007 | Politics

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For the first time since a demonstration in 1990, a group of Saudi women is campaigning for the right to drive in this conservative kingdom, the only ...

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