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SAUDI ARABIA PUTS 47 TO DEATH INCLUDING PROMINENT SHIITE CLERIC
The Saudi government accused him of fueling violent dissent among Saudi Arabia's Shiites, which he denied... READ MORE›
TIME TO SAW OFF THE SAUDIS FROM THE RADICALIZATION BUSINESS
Nor did he suggest a few realities that Saudi Arabia should be confronting without excuse... READ MORE›
4 CARTOONS THAT SUM UP THE ABSURDITY OF SAUDI ARABIA LEADING A UN HUMAN RIGHTS PANEL
Cartoons taunting Saudi Arabia's membership of the United Nations human rights council have gone viral on social media after the kingdom executed 47 people in one day... READ MORE›
SAUDI ARABIA EXECUTES TOP SHIA CLERIC
Saudi Arabia has executed the prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, the interior ministry said... READ MORE›
LOOMING CRUCIFIXION SPARKS GLOBAL CALLS TO SPARE LIFE OF YOUNG SAUDI ALI MOHAMMED AL-NIMR
Many Western countries, including the United States and Australia, have diplomatic and trading ties with Saudi Arabia... READ MORE›
HACKERS TARGET SAUDI WEBSITES AS TEENAGER ALI MOHAMMED AL-NIMR AWAITS EXECUTION
An innocent young teenage boy has been sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia and we will not stand by and watch they warned... READ MORE›
SAUDI ARABIA CARRYING OUT 'UNPRECEDENTED WAVE' OF EXECUTIONS
There's a lot of speculation, says Adam Coogle, who monitors Saudi Arabia's use of the death penalty, for Human Rights Watch... READ MORE›
FOREIGN OFFICE WILL NO LONGER EXPLICITLY CAMPAIGN FOR AN END TO USE OF THE DEATH PENALTY WORLDWIDE
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office FCO has alarmed campaigners after dropping explicit references to abolishing the death penalty from its global human right work... READ MORE›
IN SAUDI ARABIA, ARTIST ASHRAF FAYADH SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR ATHEISM
He also curated a show in Saudi Arabia called Mostly Visible, which was visited by the director of London's Tate Modern, Chris Dercon... READ MORE›
SAUDI ARABIAN EXECUTIONERS ARE HAVING AN UNUSUALLY PROLIFIC YEAR
Even before these reports, it was clear that Saudi Arabian executioners were having an unusually prolific year... READ MORE›
JOHN MCDONNELL LEADS CALLS FOR UK TO CANCEL EGYPTIAN PRESIDENTS VISIT
In 2014, he also ordered a review of the UK activities of the Muslim Brotherhood, which is banned by Egypt and Saudi Arabia... READ MORE›
ASHLEY MADISON PERSONAL EMAIL LEAKS PUTTING GAY LIVES AT RISK AROUND THE WORLD
Two Australian DJs were criticised after revealing to a woman live on air that her husband was registered on the adultery website Ashley Madison... READ MORE›
BAHRAIN, SUDAN CUT TIES WITH TEHRAN AS CRISIS WIDENS IN SAUDI-IRAN SPLIT
Saudi Arabia, whose population is about a third the size of Iran's, carried out 157 in all of 2015, according to Amnesty and media reports... READ MORE›
EUROPEAN SYMPATHIES LEAN TOWARD IRAN IN CONFLICT WITH SAUDI ARABIA
So Saudi Arabia is now making a show of force... READ MORE›
NEBRASKA POISED TO ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY, WOULD BE FIRST STATE SINCE 2013
If that vote holds in a veto override, Nebraska would become the first conservative state to repeal the death penalty since 1973... READ MORE›
'HE KNEW THEY WOULD KILL HIM'
After that, Mohammed al-Nimr returned to Saudi Arabia several times to visit his father... READ MORE›
FIRE AT SAUDI RESIDENTIAL COMPLEX KILLS 11, INJURES MORE THAN 200
Saudi Aramco is the state-owned petroleum and natural gas company based in Dhahran... READ MORE›
SAUDI MUSCLE-FLEXING WILL REALLY MESS UP THE MIDDLE EAST
In Saudi Arabia, those who are crucified are first beheaded and then the body is hung out on a gibbet in public for several days... READ MORE›
SAUDI EXECUTION THREATENS TO DEEPEN SHIA-SUNNI DIVIDE
Several analysts believe the execution of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr will deepen a divide between Sunni and Shia and worsen relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran... READ MORE›
SHIITE CLERIC GAINED IN STATUS AS A RIVALRY DEEPENED
Sheikh Nimr was from the village of Awamiya in eastern Saudi Arabia, where most of the kingdom's Shiite minority lives... READ MORE›
A CENTRE FOR BLIND PEOPLE IN YEMEN HAS BEEN HIT BY SAUDI-LED AIR STRIKES
Air strikes led by Saudi Arabia have hit a care centre for blind people, residents have said... READ MORE›
UAE TO TRY 41 ON CHARGES OF SEEKING 'CALIPHATE'
Like neighbouring Saudi Arabia, the UAE regards the Muslim Brotherhood, the party of ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi, as a terrorist organisation... READ MORE›
LOOMING CRUCIFIXION SPARKS GLOBAL CALLS TO SPARE LIFE OF YOUNG SAUDI ALI MOHAMMED AL-NIMR
Many Western countries, including the United States and Australia, have diplomatic and trading ties with Saudi Arabia... READ MORE›
SAUDI ARABIA EXECUTIONS THREATEN TO PLUNGE MIDDLE EAST INTO GREATER TURMOIL
Saudi Arabia executions threaten to plunge Middle East into greater turmoil... READ MORE›
SAUDI FOREIGN MINISTER DEEPLY SKEPTICAL OF IRAN DEAL
He said Saudi Arabia is worried Iran will support terrorism and instability in the region... READ MORE›
CALIFORNIA UNVEILS LETHAL INJECTION PLAN AFTER 10-YEAR EXECUTION DELAY
The latter two have never been used in the U.S. as execution drugs, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, which opposes capital punishment... READ MORE›
DEATH SENTENCES SURGE EVEN AS MORE COUNTRIES DROP CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
Saudi Arabia is an elected member of the United Nations Human Rights Council... READ MORE›
THE POLITICAL PROTESTERS EXECUTED IN SAUDI ARABIA - AND THOSE STILL ON DEATH ROW
At his subsequent trial, he was sentenced to death by beheading and is being held in solitary confinement at Riyadh's Al-Hayir prison awaiting execution... READ MORE›
CONNECTICUT'S TOP COURT BANS DEATH PENALTY IN STATE
Connecticut's top court on Thursday ruled that the state could no longer impose the death penalty calling it unconstitutionally cruel and unusual punishment... READ MORE›
PROTESTERS SENTENCED TO DEATH AS CHILDREN COULD BE BEHEADED NEXT, WARNS HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGNERS
Read more Maya Foa, director of the death penalty team at Reprieve, said Saudi Arabia had executed more than 150 people during 2015, many for non-violent offences... READ MORE›