Bypassing Saudi human rights in the name of oil and jobs
Human rights were not on the agenda during Prince Charles’s visit to Saudi Arabia – a country with the highest per capita execution rate in the world.
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Human rights were not on the agenda during Prince Charles’s visit to Saudi Arabia – a country with the highest per capita execution rate in the world.
With the war in Mali and killings at a BP oil plant in the Algerian desert, where is the funding for Islamist militants coming from?
Militants from Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates are arrested in a joint Saudi-UAE operation, the official WAM news agency reports. The cell were reportedly planning attacks in the Arab Gulf.
Questions are raised over the government’s ties to Saudi Arabia as the extent of UK arms exports to repressive regimes is laid bare.
Should one woman horse rider, who still has to reach the ‘required standard’, be allowed to suggest a Saudi women’s Olympic ‘spring’? asks Jon Snow.
British defence giant BAE Systems secures a £1.6bn deal with Saudi Arabia that will safeguard more than 240 jobs that were under threat at its Yorkshire factory.
The IOC president tells Channel 4 News he is “optimistic” Saudi women will be able to compete in London 2012. But pressure on the IOC to issue a ban is growing.
Jon Snow blogs on David Cameron’s recent low-profile visit to Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabian hackers have claimed a successful cyber attack on Israeli computer servers, publishing the financial details and mobile phone numbers of an estimated 400,000 people.
The ruler of Saudi Arabia, King Abdullah, overturns a court’s sentence of 10 lashes imposed on a woman for breaking a driving ban in the country.
Jon Snow considers the lot of women in Saudi society and the restrictions they still face.
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia announces that women will be able to run as candidates in municipal elections and “even have the right to vote”.
Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah demands an end to the bloodshed in Syria and recalls his country’s ambassador from Damascus, in a rare intervention.
“Many inside America’s so-called ‘Jewish lobby’, are reportedly frustrated with the Israeli leadership’s failure to respond to the developing new order that is flowing from the ‘Arab Spring’.”
“Now this Saudi woman is in jail for doing what? Yes you read it right, getting behind the wheel of a car and, as a woman, driving the thing.”