Rights group: Saudi Arabia must end trial of human rights lawyer
April 21, 2013
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Saturday called on the Saudi government to immediately end the 18-month prosecution of human rights lawyer Walid Abu al-Khair. Abu al-Khair is known for his defense of other human rights activists, including a group of a dozen men known for demanding human rights and po....... [more] 
Rights group criticizes Kuwait over executions
April 1, 2013
Amnesty International (AI) criticized the government of Kuwait on Monday for executing three men convicted of murder. The three men, a Saudi national, a Pakistani national and a stateless Bidun man, were convicted on separate murder charges before being hanged outside the Central Prison on Monday. T....... [more]
UN rights chief condemns executions in Saudi Arabia
March 15, 2013
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Thursday condemned the executions of seven people in Saudi Arabia as a violation of international safeguards on the use of the death penalty. The men were executed by firing squad after convictions for theft, looting and armed robbery. The seven w....... [more]
Saudi Arabia court sentences human rights activitsts to 10 years in prison
March 10, 2013
A Saudi Arabian criminal court in Riyadh on Saturday sentenced two Saudi Arabian human rights activists on to at least 10 years in prison. The activists were found guilty earlier that day of sedition, providing foreign media with inaccurate information, founding and operating an unlicensed human rig....... [more]
Saudi Arabia court convicts Egypt rights lawyer of drug smuggling
January 15, 2013
A Saudi Arabian court on Tuesday convicted prominent Egyptian human rights lawyer Ahmed el-Gezawi of smuggling drugs. Despite requests from Saudi prosecutors for the death penalty, el-Gezawi was given a sentence of five years imprisonment and 300 lashes. El-Gezawi's arrest in April 2012 sparked prot....... [more]
HRW urges Saudi Arabia to drop apostasy charges against website editor
December 27, 2012
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged Saudi Arabia to dismiss a criminal case escalated last week to a senior Saudi court on apostasy charges. Website editor Raif Badawi, 30, was originally charged with ?insulting Islam through electronic channels? for co-founding the religious discussion w....... [more]
Saudi student sentenced to life for US bomb plot
November 13, 2012
A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas sentenced a former Texas college student from Saudi Arabia to life in prison on Tuesday for trying to make a bomb for use in a jihad. One of Khalid Ali-M Aldawsar's possible targets was believed to be former US president George W....... [more]
Chinese committee passed tougher anti-terrorism legislation
October 25, 2012
On October 25, 2011, the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress passed anti-terrorism legislation that defined terrorism in a way that would allow officials to bring charges against alleged terrorists more easily. The legislation allowed the assets of suspected terrorists to be fro....... [more]
UK court halts extradition of Abu Hamza to US
September 26, 2012
The High Court of England and Wales on Tuesday ordered an injunction against the extradition of Egyptian-born Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri and Saudi-born Khaled Al-Fawwaz to the US until a formal hearing can be held. The pair were scheduled to be extradited to the US to face terrorism charges st....... [more]
US transferred 16 Saudi detainees from Guantanamo Bay
September 6, 2012
On September 6, 2007, the US Department of Defense (DOD) reported that 16 Guantanamo Bay detainees had been transferred back to their home country of Saudi Arabia. At the time, the DOD indicated there were 80 detainees at the base that could be transferred. Other countries were hesitant to take in t....... [more]
US charges Guantanamo detainee with supporting terrorism
August 30, 2012
The US Department of Defense announced Wednesday that the Chief Prosecutor for Military Commissions has filed terrorism charges against a Saudi Guantanamo Bay prisoner accused of plotting with al Qaeda to blow up oil tankers near Yemen. The detainee, Ahmed al Darbi, has been accused of six offenses....... [more]
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