It’s a profanity uttered countless times a day around the globe, but a barber in Saudi Arabia faces beheading for the crime of using God’s name in vain.

 When Ruwaida al-Habis' father and two brothers were badly burned in a fire, she had no choice but to break Saudi Arabia's ban on women drivers to get them to a clinic

 the Saudi General Intelligence ( al-Mabaheth al-'Amma ) of Rabe'yyah town in Qatif arrested the Shi'a citizen Sayyed Ali Alawi al-Derweesh , the supervisor of ( al-Abbas Mosque )

 Saudi Wahhabism, as it spreads throughout the Islamic diaspora, has been likened by one terrorism expert to “kindling for Usama Bin Laden’s match.”

 Saudi Arabia should immediately implement its proposed reform to the kafala sponsorship system and extend labor protections to domestic workers, Human Rights Watch said today.

 Saudi Arabia continued incremental reforms in 2006. King Abdullah resolved succession questions by establishing a committee known as the Allegiance Institution, composed of the male descendants of King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud, to elect future kings through majority vote.

 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...

 Across the world one hears the yearning for peace, or at least stability, between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

 Instability, violence, and radicalism dominate Middle Eastern politics of today. In Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestine a combination of the continued failure of state institutions, the rise of radical forces, and foreign interventions have brought these societies to the brink of civil war.

 Two months after beginning her service as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson observed that …the gap in perceptions of what we mean by human rights is even wider than I had thought.

 On Sunday 22 June 2008 , al-Mahbahith al-'Amma (General Investigations) in the eastern town of Hufuf in al-Ahsa , detained a prominent Shiite religious scholar ( Shaikh Tawfiq al-'Amer ) according of an order from the governor of al-Ahsa ( Badr Ibn Jalawi ) .

 On 5 June 2008 the Saudi General Intelligence (Al-Mabahith Al-'Aamma) in the town of al-Rabeayah in al-Ahsa called the supervisors of the feminine Hawzat (religious school) of Om al-Baneen , located in a private house and undertakes teaching Islamic Shiite sciences , and delivered them an order from...

 In a provoking move the Saudi religious establishment issued a strongly worded religious statement signed by 22 Saudi Wahhabi clerics (Abdullah bin Jabreen , Abdul Rahman al-Barak and Nasser al-Omer) attacking Shia Muslims and making doubt of their faiths. It also incited hatred and legitimized viol...

 

 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

 

 

 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

 The first and foremost basic right is the right to life. The Holy Qur'an lays down: "Whosoever kills a human being (without any reason like) man- slaughter, or corruption on earth, it is though he had killed all mankind." (5:32)

 In the Summer of 1916, it became apparent to all that Tsar Nicholas II was failing to keep together his regime. The combined weight of external events and internal pressure was becoming too strong to be sustained by the fragile ruler.

 Americans have long considered Saudi Arabia the one constant in the Arab Middle East—a source of cheap oil, political stability, and lucrative business relationships.