Tags: Saudi Arabia
Saudi women’s rights activist arrested – days after Saudi Arabia returned to Human Rights Council
Posted: Thu, 03 Nov 2016 by David van Rooyen
A leading women's rights activist, Mariam Nassir Al Oteebi, has been arrested in Saudi Arabia and languishes in prison, just days after the country was re-elected to the UN Human Rights Council, writes David van Rooyen.
Mariam Nassir Al Oteebi had been playing... Read More »
Apostasy and blasphemy laws: an affront to human rights
Posted: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 by Alastair Lichten
Iran's execution of Mohsen Amir-Aslani on apostasy charges illustrates the injustices caused by such laws in the Middle East and around the world, argues Alastair Lichten.
This week, the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran... Read More »
Saudi religious police aren’t funny
Posted: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 by Terry Sanderson
By Terry Sanderson
If you are going to have a special police division to enforce morality in a country that is already very religiously conservative, then they are bound to make frequent idiots of themselves.
In Saudi Arabia, where religious mania seems to be... Read More »
