A Sri Lankan housemaid whose Saudi employer allegedly embedded 24 nails in her body was recovering in hospital on Friday after doctors removed 18 of them during a three-hour surgery.

 Within the framework of the sectarian discrimination against Shiite citizens in the Arabian Peninsula which has being carried by Saudi regime , the authorities issued arrest warrants against the most prominent Shiite figures in Al-Khobar the prominent Shiite cleric "Sayyid Muhammad Baqir al-Nasir" ...

 Some 200 unemployed Saudi university graduates staged a rare protest in the capital Riyadh demanding the Gulf Arab state give them jobs, Saudi media said on Sunday.

 A prominent Saudi human rights activist will remain in jail, more than three years after his arrest, as state prosecutors are preparing charges against him and other activists, his lawyers said Saturday.

 On 25 August 2010 the Saudi security forces of Al-Ahsa arrested two Shi'a citizens ( Muhssin Ali al-Oqeili , 28 years , private employee , and Hussain Ali al-Oqeili , 18 years , a student , from al-Mahdoud district in Qatif city .

 King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia on Thursday issued a decree stating that only senior clerics are permitted to issue fatwas, or Islamic religious edicts, the official SPA news agency said.

 Amnesty International has urged the Saudi Arabian authorities not to deliberately paralyse a man in retribution for similar injuries he allegedly caused during a fight.

 Saudi Arabian human rights defender and Shi’a Muslim rights activist Munir Baqir al-Jessas has been detained since November 2009, possibly for his criticism of the authorities' treatment of the Shi’a community in Saudi Arabia. More than seven months later no charges have been brought against him and...

 Prosecutors should immediately drop charges against Shaikh Mikhlif bin Dahham al-Shammari, a human rights activist, and release him, Human Rights Watch said today.

 The Saudi government’s ideology of extreme religious intolerance, including violence, is propounded in Saudi textbooks and other educational materials. Saudi Arabia makes these publications available on the internet and through their distribution internationally. USCIRF found earlier this year tha...

 Saudi Arabian human rights defender and Shi’a Muslim rights activist Munir Baqir al-Jessas has been detained since November 2009, possibly for his criticism of the authorities' treatment of the Shi’a community in Saudi Arabia. More than seven months later no charges have been brought against him ...

 Human rights are a legal statement of what human beings require to live fully human lives. Collectively they are a comprehensive, holistic statement. All human rights—civil, cultural, economic, political and

 Since his accession to the throne in 2005, Saudi King Abdullah bin Abd Al-Aziz has been viewed hopefully, by many Muslims, as a reformer. With wide contacts in the kingdom, we at CIP shared this optimism

  Saudi royalty sanctions official Wahhabi discourse for obvious political reasons.[1] This religious discourse is responsible for closing channels of political debate and delaying the emergence of calls for political reform and participation in the country.

 On 2 August 2010 a lot of members of Saudi General Intelligence (Al-Mabahith Al-'Aamma) of al-Madinah al-Monawarah attacked the farm of Sheikh Muhammad Ali al-Amri to pursue some of the expatriate workers work in shops belonging to the farm who sell Shi'a religious materials and symbols in private w...

 On 29 March 2010 , al-Mabaheth al-`Amma of al- Khober in al-Ahsa ask notable Shiites to present themselves at the Office of Intelligence and Research of al-Khober and were arrested upon arrival there . The detainees were (Hassan Saleh al-Muhanna ,45 years , Mahdi Ahmed al-Khudheir ,64 years , Abdul...

 In an attempt to consolidate the political and religious dictatorship on the multi-confessional people of the Arabian Peninsula , the Saudi regime has being using the methods of repression and the governmental terrorism to vilify

 

 Considering that the Charter of the United Nations is based on the principles of the dignity and equality inherent in all human beings, and that all Member States have pledged themselves to take joint and separate action, in co-operation with the Organization,

 Adopted and proclaimed by the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization at its twentieth session, on 27 November 1978

 The following terms whenever used in this law shall have the meanings assigned to them as follows: Circulation : To put the printed material within the reach of a number of persons by distributing them freely or by offering them for sale or by sticking them to walls or by displaying them on the fr...

 Courts shall apply Shari’ah principles, as derived from the Qur’an and Sunnah (The Traditions of Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him) to the cases that are brought before them. They shall also apply laws promulgated by the state that do not contradict the provisions of the Qur’an and Sunnah, and sh...

 As herein used, the phrase “law practice” shall mean representation of third parties before courts of law, the Board of Grievances, and other committees as may be set up pursuant to laws, decrees and decisions to consider the cases falling within their respective jurisdictions. It shall also mean re...

 

 

 This document shows a dismissal of one of the citizens from his work in ARAMCO co. according to the order of the Interior Minister due to sectarian reasons and preventing his petition to come back to his work despite his hard circumstances

 Those of us following the development of Islam in America have for years worried about the unhealthy influence of Saudi money and ideas on American Muslims.

 Human Rights Day is the anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) on 10 December 1948, one of the most important documents in human history. Drafted by representatives from many

 It was a distinctly un-Saudi affair. The traditionally cautious kingdom, careful to the point where its diplomatic initiatives must be guaranteed to succeed before they are even launched, found itself militarily thrown into the internal conflict in neighbouring Yemen.