Saudi Arabia’s Supreme Court Ends Flogging as Punishment
The General Assembly of Saudi Arabia’s Supreme Court has decided to end flogging as punishment in disciplinary cases.
Raif Badawi
Saudi Arabia Expels Canada’s Ambassador, Freezes Trade over ‘Blatant Interference’
Saudi Arabia is freezing all new trade and investment with Canada over what it calls “interference” in the Gulf Kingdom’s internal affairs.
Saudis Release Award-Winning Female Human Rights Advocate
The government of Saudi Arabia has reportedly released Samar Badawi, a prominent human rights activist who received the “International Woman of Courage Award” in 2012 from then-U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Saudi Writer Jailed for Four Years for Criticizing Monarchy on TV
A court in Saudi Arabia sentenced reformist writer Zuhair Kutbi to fours years in prison and banned him from travel.
‘Secret Deal’ On Vote Trading Secured UK And Saudi Arabia’s UN Human Rights Council Places
Leaked diplomatic cables show Britain and Saudi Arabia, one of the world’s worst human rights violators, brokered a secret vote-trading deal to ensure both countries were elected to the the Human Rights Council of the United Nations (UNHRC). Saudi foreign ministry files were passed
U.N. Criticized for ‘Scandalous’ Appointment of Saudi to Human Rights Panel
A Saudi Arabian government official has been secretly appointed to run a U.N. human rights advisory panel.
Saudi Arabia Beheads 100th Person This Year
Saudi Arabia executed two more people on Monday, bringing the number of executions the kingdom has carried out to 100 so far this year alone. They are just 92 executions short of breaking their 1995 record.
Saudi Supreme Court Upholds Verdict Giving Blogger 1,000 Lashes for Insulting Islam
Global outrage and criticism from the United States, United Nations, European Union and Canada was not enough to keep Saudi Arabia’s supreme court from upholding their extreme sentencing of 10 years in prison and 1,000 blood-curdling lashes as punishment for liberal blogger Raif Badawi, 31, on charges for insulting the religion of Islam.
Saudi Government: Western Critics of Our Laws Undermine Our Sovereignty
The Saudi Arabian government has responded with fury to suggestions that its jailing and vicious punishment of a liberal activist was in any way unjustified.
Jesuit Priest Thomas Reese Says ‘No Thanks’ to Whipping in Place of Raif Badawi
After Saudi Arabia sentenced blogger Raif Badawi to public flogging, seven of the nine members of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) stepped forward to ask the Saudis to commute his sentence or, if not, to whip them instead.
Lashing Postponed for Saudi Blogger Arrested for ‘Anti-Islamic Discourse’
Saudi Arabia postponed a second round of 50 lashes for blogger and activist Raif Badawi Friday, according to his family.
