Saudi authorities should ensure a fair trial for the Shia cleric Nimr al-Nimr, Human Rights Watch said today. Criminal justice authorities should make sure he gets immediate access to adequate medical care for gunshot wounds received during his (...)
QATIF, Saudi Arabia — Al-Awamiyah is a small village of shabby houses, narrow streets and dilapidated palm groves that has earned a big reputation as the center of unrest among Saudi Arabia's Shia Muslim minority.
In two years of persistent protests (...)
People have held demonstrations against the Al Saud regime in the holy city of Mecca and the central city of Buraidah, Press TV reports.
The demonstrators took to the streets in the two cities on Tuesday, calling for the downfall of the Saudi (...)
The Arab Spring is the most significant event in Arab history since the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and liberation from foreign colonialism. Since the Arab Spring began at the onset of 2011 and struck five Arab states, the governments of the Gulf (...)
The appeals court in the eastern region of Saudi Arabia approved the verdict of a lower court in the Qatif province in the case of a 52-year-old man caught engaged in an indecent act with a 24-year-old girl in the Prophet's Mosque in Medina.
The man (...)
Two men were shot dead and two others wounded on Wednesday when Saudi security forces stormed a house to arrest a wanted man in Awamiya village in the troubled Qatif area, the scene of protests by minority Shia Muslims.
The authorities were trying (...)
Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry said on Saturday a soldier was shot dead late on Friday in the Qatif district, home to much of the kingdom's Shi'ite minority who have been protesting against what they see as entrenched discrimination.
"A security (...)
A Saudi policeman and an armed protester were killed in overnight clashes in the kingdom's oil-rich, Shiite-populated Eastern Province, the interior ministry said on Saturday.
"A security patrol came under heavy gunfire from four armed rioters on (...)
Prominent Saudi blogger Nazir Al-Majid was released by Saudi authorities on Thursday, after spending a year in solitary confinement without facing any charges.
A Shia blogger concerned with issues of freedom and religion in his writings, Al-Majid (...)
CAIRO: The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) condemns the continuity of the Saudi regime to use, Thursday night of July 26, 2012, excessive violence and power against the peaceful demonstrations, which organized by the people of (...)
Saudi forces have opened fire on demonstrators in Qatif in the country's Eastern province, leaving several protesters injured.
Similar demonstrations have also been held in Riyadh and the holy city of Medina over the past few weeks.
Since February (...)
The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Foreign Affairs shot back on Sunday at their Russian counterparts for making statements over events in the simmering Qatif region.
After prominent dissident Shia cleric Sheik Nimr Al-Nimr was arrested and shot last (...)
Following the arrest of a prominent Shiite Muslim cleric wanted for sedition in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province Qatif, the interior ministry says two people died in overnight protests, but denies any clashes with police
Saudi Arabia said on Monday (...)
DUBAI: Saudi Arabia arrested a popular Shiite cleric in the country who had been wanted on “sedition” charges in the country's Eastern Province late Sunday evening, the interior ministry said in a statement published by local Arabic (...)
Security forces in Saudi Arabia have killed two demonstrators in the country's Eastern Province, which has been a major scene of anti-regime protests over the past months.
The Riyadh regime forces opened fire on a demonstration in the Qatif region (...)
Saudi King Abdullah has reportedly ordered the security forces to be on a state of high alert due to what Riyadh considers the tense situation in the Middle East.
Reports say King Abdullah has issued the order over what he claims to be “foreign or (...)
CAIRO: Saudi Arabia is on pace to eclipse last year's execution total of 79, having already executed 44 people this year, the interior ministry has confirmed.
The latest execution was Saudi citizen Khaled bin Said al-Asmari, who was put to death in (...)
Framing the pro-democracy protests in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia as 'sectarian' subtly delegitimises the democratic aspirations of millions of people, argues Khadija Magardie
Beyond the standard "calls of reform", 12 months later, it's still not clear (...)
Saudi protesters have held anti-regime demonstrations in several towns in the Qatif region of the oil-rich Eastern Province.
Demonstrators took to the streets on Friday evening.
Saudi protesters have been holding demonstrations on an almost regular (...)
CAIRO: In two days of consecutive protest, Egyptian youth continued to demand the release of human rights lawyer, Al Gizawi, who is detained in Saudi Arabia for allegedly defaming its monarchy.
Al Gizawi, who flew to Saudi Arabia for a religious (...)
Capacity at three power plants will be expanded under an agreement signed on Monday between Saudi Aramco and co-generation supplier Tihama Power Generation Co, a joint venture between International Power and Saudi Oger.
Aramco generates power both (...)
The contemporary Saudi-led counterrevolution, fierce as it has been throughout the Arab world, is perhaps most relentless inside the Kingdom's own borders. US-trained and armed security forces have been dispatched more thoroughly throughout the (...)
CAIRO: According to the Arabic language daily newspaper, Kabar, a Saudi man decided to lock up his teenage daughter as a form of punishment.
The girl is now a 36 year-old woman.
Police deny any apparent problems, however, the paper quoted (...)
Renault, one of the pioneering automotive majors, has announced an impressive campaign in Saudi Arabia for its latest offering - Renault Fluence. Until 31st March 2012, with every Renault Fluence, customers can choose an Apple iPhone 4S or benefit (...)
Sheikh Feierstein (@SheikhFeierstei) is enchanting hundreds of internet savvy Yemeni on twitter, opening a window onto Yemen which very few have ever had the opportunity to look through. He is a Yemeni satirist icon of a comedian specialized in the (...)