Two hundred Saudi teachers rallied at the Ministry of Education on Sunday, calling on the government to give them jobs in a rare protest in the conservative Gulf kingdom.
The demonstrators, mainly Arabic language teachers, demanded a meeting with Education Minister ...
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Human-Rights Groups Charge That Some Detained Suspects Aren't Militants but Members of a Growing Civil-Rights Movement
Saudi Arabia's crackdown on alleged Islamic militants has resulted in recent years in thousands of arrests and scores of convictions, drawing praise from Washington ...
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JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia — King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia on Thursday issued a decree stating that only senior clerics are permitted to issue fatwas, or Islamic religious edicts, the official SPA news agency said.
It cited the text of the decree ...
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A popular Saudi cleric said Saturday it is permissible for Muslim women to reveal their faces in countries where the Islamic veil is banned to avoid harassment, while deploring the effort to outlaw the garment in France.
Saudi Arabia, the birthplace ...
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Human Rights Watch has called on Saudi Arabia to free a rights activist it says was arrested for criticising attacks by Sunni clerics on Shiite Muslims.
Police told activist Mikhlif bin Dahham al-Shammari, a Sunni, that he was being detained because ...
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• Saudi's ultra-conservatives hold on to old views as Islamic progressives push for modern fatwas
Clerics have opened up a pitched battle in Saudi Arabia over who can issue fatwas, or religious edicts, as hardline and progressive religious scholars, judges and ...
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Aziza Abdullah had always regarded Saudi Arabia's Shia minority with suspicion and curiosity.
Like many Saudis, she considered the Shia, primarily present in the oil-rich Eastern province, as potential traitors, loyal to their brethren in Iran and busy plotting against Sunni ...
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The photo may not look remarkable - a Saudi royal posing with roughly 40 women covered in conservative Muslim dress. But the photograph of King Abdullah is being hailed as a landmark for Saudi women and their long struggle for ...
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Saudi Arabia and China are among 13 countries a U.S. government panel named on Thursday as serious violators of religious freedom.
The panel's report also criticized the current and former administrations in Washington for doing far too little to make ...
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On the eve of the one year anniversary of naming his son as governor of Najran province, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia should immediately order the release of Hadi Al-Mutif, one of the longest serving religious prisoners in the world, ...
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A senior Iranian cleric criticized on Monday what he called the “violations and abuses” against Shias in Saudi Arabia.
According to the official Iranian news agency IRNA, Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi, one of the top Shia clerics living in Qom ...
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A Shia activist has been arrested last June by the Saudi police over joining a rally last year organized in Al-Awamia village in the province of Qatif city to protest the attacks that affected the Shia pilgrims in Medina.
According to ...
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Sayyed al-Nasser says: “We will not accept any sectarian discrimination against us or derogation of any of our national rights.”
The renowned Shiite cleric Sayyed Muhammad Baqir al-Nasser condemned the continuous campaign of interrogation calls against the Shiite population in the ...
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Last month, The Saudi Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (SCPVPV), also known as Religious Police, had attacked a religious ceremony held in Al-Medina city on the occasion of the birth of Imam Mahdi, the ...
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According to legal sources in alAhsa and Qatif, Saudi officials are still holding a number of Shiite citizens for more than six months in detention because of their involvement in political and religious activities.
In addition to the detained activist ...
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The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information denounced today , that the investigation service authority in Madina raided the ranch of the distinguished Shiite preacher Mohamed Ali AlEmary. They stripped down some Shiite posters and arrested his son Kazim ten ...
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In Medina, Saudi authorities arrested the Shiite cleric Sheikh Kazem Alamari under the pretext of violating municipal laws and regulations by allowing the street vendors to work in his father’s private farm.
Many different sources confirmed that troops of Medina ...
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According to human right sources in Al-Ahsa, the Saudi authorities are still holding six Shi'ite residents for the sixth month in the row under the pretext of suspending Ashura banners last December during the ceremonies of Ashura.
All of the six ...
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For thirty months, the Saudi secret police is still holding a Shiite citizen Ridha Algashaam for unidentified reasons and without formal charges to date.
The authorities arrested the young Algashaam (25 years) in January 2008 amid conflicting reports about the ...
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For more than six continuous months, family sources indicated that the Saudi authorities are still detaining the Shiite citizen Mohammed Isa Al Labbad who was allegedly accused of participating in a protest that took place last year in Awamiyah town ...
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