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Amnesty International says executions in Saudi Arabia hit a record high last year, with 345 people put to death ...
A year ago, Saudi authorities clipped the Hay’a’s wings quite short — it can nag but no longer police. Saudis report that the all-visible institution has become less visible.
Police in Saudi Arabia have detained a woman who was featured in a social media video wearing a miniskirt and a crop-top as she strolled through a Saudi city, according to a Saudi police statement.
Updated at 1:59 p.m. ET. RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Several hundred people protested in heavily Shiite eastern Saudi Arabia Friday but hundreds of police prevented protests in the capital calling for ...
Two car bombs blasted the Saudi national police headquarters Wednesday, killing at least nine people and wounding 125 others, police said. Facades were torn off buildings near the explosions ...
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia—Saudi Arabia’s Interior Ministry says police have arrested a suspected Islamic State group operative wanted for the killing of two policemen in the capital, Riyadh ...
Saudi authorities should hold religious police accountable for their fatal beating of a 28-year-old man in Riyadh on May 23, 2007, Human Rights Watch said today.
In the seven years since King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz assumed the throne of Saudi Arabia, the absolute monarch, whose reformist aspirations are widely believed to be sincere, has attempted to curb ...
Saudi authorities should conduct an independent, thorough, and transparent investigation of the March 11 fire at a girls' public intermediate school in Mecca that claimed the lives of at least ...
WASHINGTON — Two of the most wanted Al Qaeda operatives in Saudi Arabia, including a Saudi national identified by authorities as a key planner of the May 12 suicide attacks in Riyadh, were ...
Saudi Arabia's religious police enforce prayer times with sidewalk mosques. BEIRUT, Lebanon, July 5, 2010. -- Now at a World Cup game near you, in Saudi Arabia: "mobile mosques," courtesy of the ...