Tag: Human Rights in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia stops medical treatment programs in Canada as row escalates
RIYADH (Reuters): Saudi Arabia said on Wednesday it had stopped all medical treatment programs in Canada and was working on the transfer of all...
Canada defiant after Saudi Arabia freezes new trade over human rights...
RIYADH/OTTAWA: Canada on Monday refused to back down in its defense of human rights after Saudi Arabia froze new trade and investment and expelled...
Saudi Arabia freezes new trade with Canada for urging activists’ release
CAIRO/OTTAWA: Saudi Arabia will suspend new trade and investment with Canada after that country’s foreign ministry urged Riyadh to release arrested civil rights activists,...
Dissent still not accepted in Saudi, UN says, calls for activists’...
GENEVA: The United Nations human rights office called on Saudi Arabia on Tuesday to release all peaceful activists, including women held for campaigning against...
Saudi Arabia arrests more women’s rights activists: HRW
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia detained two more women’s rights advocates earlier this month and imposed a travel ban on several others in an ongoing crackdown...
UN voices concern on Saudi arrests of activists, missing prince
GENEVA: The United Nations human rights office called on Saudi Arabia on Tuesday to provide information about women’s rights activists and other activists being...
Saudi Arabia makes new arrest in crackdown on activists
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia arrested prominent rights campaigner Mohammed al-Bajadi, Amnesty International said on Friday, as part of a crackdown mostly targeting advocates of women’s...
