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Saudi Arabia - Latest Press Releases
Saudi Arabia: Halt Imminent Execution of 7 young men sentenced to death for robbery
KSA - News | 04 March 2013
Seven young men, poor and unemployed, robbed jewellery stores in different places at different times, but all ended up in the same jail. This could be the beginning of one of the gangster movies or social-dramas to be rewarded at the Oscars this year. Quite an intriguing setting, if you consider that the story takes place in one of the wealthiest countries in the world. It would have been banal, if it was just a story.
Saudi Arabia: 7 years, 3 prisons but no charge for Qatari Detainee
KSA - News | 04 February 2013
Saudi authorities should release Amer Al-Anzi immediately and provide him with appropriate compensation for his arbitrary detention.
Amer Al-Anzi, 34 year-old Qatari national, currently detained at Dammam Prison, the capital of the Province of Eastern Saudi Arabia, has spent more than 7 years in prison without charge or trial.
Saudi Arabia: Will the authorities keep their promise to release and compensate Yemeni prisoner illegally detained for over 8 years?
KSA - News | 24 December 2012
The Alkarama Foundation has been informed of the Saudi authorities' decision to release the Yemeni detainee Naser Abdullah Al-Hudaiqi later this January, after 8 years of detention. Alkarama submitted his case to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention in August 2008.
Al-Hudaiqi's family said ''the Saudi authorities informed us of its decision to release our son by the end of next month, however, we fear that they will not uphold their pledge to provide suitable medical care and compensation for the injustice and mistreatment to which both the victim and his whole family were subjected.''
Saudi Arabia: Senior Human Rights Lawyer Arrested for Saying Right to Assembly is Legitimate
KSA - News | 17 December 2012
On 12 December, senior Saudi human rights lawyer and recently elected President of the Saudi Association for Civil and Political Rights (ACPRA), Suleiman Al Rashoudi, was arrested by Saudi intelligence services for having publicly stated that the right to assembly was protected by international law.Saudi Arabia suffers from amnesia
KSA - News | 15 October 2012
Mr Suleiman Alwan, a Saudi prisoner, refused to attend court yesterday, after he had spent more than 8 years behind bars without legal proceedings. He could not find another way to expose the Saudi jJustice system's amnesia, which results in thousands of prisoners being detained arbitrarily for years in its prisons, forgotten to the world.
Saudi Arabia: Arrest and arbitrary detention of two French citizens
KSA - News
- 17 September 2010
Saudi Arabia: UN asked to intervene with Saudi Authorities to stop flogging of Egyptian woman
KSA - News
- 06 August 2012