Migrant workers who move to Saudi Arabia in the hope of a better life and a higher income can instead expect to be faced with torture, unfair trials and forced confessions if they are accused of crimes, according to a scathing Human Rights Watch report released yesterday.
The report,... » read this article
Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud, who rules Saudi Arabia in place of his ailing half-brother, King Fahd, is sitting under huge crystal chandeliers in a luxurious hall the size of a football pitch, listening to the problems and complaints of his subjects. In the middle of a... » read this article
Craig Whitlock in London and Renae Merle in Washington , Sydney Morning Herald
The three Americans killed or kidnapped by Islamic radicals in Saudi Arabia in the past week were probably selected as targets days or weeks in advance and singled out because of their work as military contractors, United States and Saudi officials said.
Authorities continued to search for the kidnapped... » read this article
Craig Whitlock in London and Renae Merle in Washington , Sydney Morning Herald
The three Americans killed or kidnapped by Islamic radicals in Saudi Arabia in the past week were probably selected as targets days or weeks in advance and singled out because of their work as military contractors, United States and Saudi officials said.
Authorities continued to search for the kidnapped... » read this article
Saudi Arabia is beginning to look like a society under siege.
At Riyadh's trendiest shopping mall on a quiet afternoon last month, security officers were stopping vehicles entering the parking garage, opening hoods and trunks in search of explosives. At the Marriott Hotel, near the Petroleum Ministry, and at... » read this article
Saudi Arabia is beginning to look like a society under siege.
At Riyadh's trendiest shopping mall on a quiet afternoon last month, security officers were stopping vehicles entering the parking garage, opening hoods and trunks in search of explosives. At the Marriott Hotel, near the Petroleum Ministry, and at... » read this article
Last autumn I visited a Sufi shrine just outside Peshawar in the North West Frontier province of Pakistan. Rahman Baba was a 17th-century mystic poet, and his tomb has for centuries been a place where musicians and poets have gathered. A friend who lived nearby in the 1980s advised... » read this article
Last autumn I visited a Sufi shrine just outside Peshawar in the North West Frontier province of Pakistan. Rahman Baba was a 17th-century mystic poet, and his tomb has for centuries been a place where musicians and poets have gathered. A friend who lived nearby in the 1980s advised... » read this article
KARACHI - The recent spate of militant attacks in Saudi Arabia has largely been attributed to the work of al-Qaeda, and some cells purporting to represent the terror organization have even claimed responsibility for some of the bloodshed.
However, intelligence sources of Pakistani origin in Saudi Arabia tell Asia... » read this article
KARACHI - The recent spate of militant attacks in Saudi Arabia has largely been attributed to the work of al-Qaeda, and some cells purporting to represent the terror organization have even claimed responsibility for some of the bloodshed.
However, intelligence sources of Pakistani origin in Saudi Arabia tell Asia... » read this article
Long before the latest violence erupted, Saudi Arabia's immaculately suited spokesmen were out on the stump, telling anyone who would listen that the situation in the country was completely under control. They're now doing it again - only this time nobody believes them.
All the signs suggest that in the... » read this article
Long before the latest violence erupted, Saudi Arabia's immaculately suited spokesmen were out on the stump, telling anyone who would listen that the situation in the country was completely under control. They're now doing it again - only this time nobody believes them.
All the signs suggest that in the... » read this article
The bloody attacks on foreigners in Khobar, the center of Saudi Arabia's oil industry, were apparently carried out by four young men. The attackers were methodical, efficient and, up to a point, even polite. They asked potential victims their religion and, if satisfied that they were Muslims, asked... » read this article
The bloody attacks on foreigners in Khobar, the center of Saudi Arabia's oil industry, were apparently carried out by four young men. The attackers were methodical, efficient and, up to a point, even polite. They asked potential victims their religion and, if satisfied that they were Muslims, asked... » read this article
KHOBAR, Saudi Arabia (AP) - Thirty-five people, mostly foreigners, have been killed over the past six weeks in a dramatic, new style of terror attacks for this kingdom: bodies dragged on streets, traffic police blown up in their offices, hotel guests taken hostage and a chef shot outside an... » read this article
KHOBAR, Saudi Arabia (AP) - Thirty-five people, mostly foreigners, have been killed over the past six weeks in a dramatic, new style of terror attacks for this kingdom: bodies dragged on streets, traffic police blown up in their offices, hotel guests taken hostage and a chef shot outside an... » read this article
When the terrorists who have identified themselves as members of al-Qa'ida took their hostages in Khobar last weekend, they were meticulous in choosing their targets. Muslims were allowed to leave; only foreign "infidels" were held and some were killed.
But the killers had another target: the ruling royal family.... » read this article
When the terrorists who have identified themselves as members of al-Qa'ida took their hostages in Khobar last weekend, they were meticulous in choosing their targets. Muslims were allowed to leave; only foreign "infidels" were held and some were killed.
But the killers had another target: the ruling royal family.... » read this article
It was the latest in a series of ruthless attacks on foreign workers in Saudi Arabia, targeting the employees of foreign oil companies. In each case the gunmen have aimed to slaughter as many non-Muslims as possible.
At 7.30 on Saturday morning, they chose the city of Khobar, an... » read this article
It is only a few days since Prince Turki al-Faisal, the Saudi Ambassador to Britain, wrote an angry letter to The Independent. Terrorism, he insisted, poses no serious threat to the peace and security of the oil-rich kingdom despite the pessimistic tone of British media commentary.
Prince Turki will... » read this article
February 3, 2010
The courtroom was packed for yesterday's [February 2, 2009] hearing in the breast cancer gene patents case,
a testament to the significance of our challenge. Both sides argued
that the judge should...
Canada's top judges expressed such concern in a
Jan. 29 decision, arguing that Khadr has endured and continued to
experience violations of his rights under the constitutional Canadian
Charter of Rights after the U.S. military...
Thousands of Afghan civilians have began fleeing their homes before a threatened US military offensive against Taliban fighters.
International Red Crescent aid workers in the southern Afghanistan city
of Marjah, Helmand province, reported that US...
The successful creation of more medical facilities has seen new developments in the capital and outside. A post-operative "village" has been assembled in tents in an area called Delmas 30. Patients will be taken there...
Israel submitted its formal response
last month to a U.N.-commissioned probe that accused both Israel and
Hamas of war crimes during last winter's war in the Gaza Strip. Israel
defended its conduct and pledged to...
The newly elected Pan-Hellenic Socialist
Movement (PASOK) government's plans to move legislation, that will
greatly affect migrants and refugees, have been both welcomed and
criticised by rights organisations and activists.
The interior ministry is ready...
Seven young doctors have
just arrived at the Croix des Bouquets field
hospital. They have come from the United States and
wish "to help their Cuban brothers and sisters in
attending to the suffering Haitian...
MOSCOW
- The leader of democratically elected Palestinian movement Hamas met
here Monday with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov for talks on
efforts to reunify the two main Palestinian independence movements.
"We met to pursue...
A state prosecutor admitted before the Supreme Court today
that the Immigration Police illegally detained the two international
activists arrested yesterday in a pre-dawn raid on the International Solidarity Movement's Ramallah offices. The two will...
After the three-day visit of Italian Prime Minister Silvio
Berlusconi to Israel and a short visit to the Occupied Palestinian
Territories, a judgement is due. Berlusconi came with a large Italian
ministry delegation (Foreign Minister...
