ANHRI condemns the detention of Kamel Abbas al-Ahmed, engineer and brother of the Saudi dissident Ali Abbas al-Ahmed, head of the Gulf Institute in Washington. The Saudi security services escorted Kamel al-Ahmed to an unknown destination without giving any reasons for his detention and without a war...

 On 7 May 2012 , a lot of members of Saudi General Intelligence (Al-Mabahith Al-'Aamma) of al-Qatif raided a farm in the district of Shweika in Qatif .

 An extremist Wahhabi group, backed by such countries as Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, is behind the atrocious massacre of Shia Muslims in Pakistan, a political analyst says.

 Anti-government protesters have rallied in the Qatif region of Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province, condemning the regime’s crackdown on peaceful demonstrators.

 A group of the Ismaili sect followers in Najran, in the southern region of Saudi Arabia, called for enacting laws that criminate any verbal or physical abuse against any citizen in Saudi Arabia within a statement signed by a large number of Ismaili youth.

 The Saudi citizen ( Abdul Hamied al-'Amir , aged 34 , from Hufouf town in Ahsa ) has been held since January 2012 in the General Investigations Prison

 The Saudi justice minister Dr Muhammad al-'Issa was in London in late April. But, at the last minute, he cancelled a meeting with interested organisations and academics that I was to attend because – we were told – he preferred to meet only with the British government.

 The Foreign & Commonwealth office has launched Human Rights and Democracy : The 2011 Foreign & Commonwealth Report.

 Saudi Arabia should abolish the Specialized Criminal Court, set up in 2008 to try terrorism cases, but increasingly used to try peaceful dissidents and rights activists on politicized charges and in proceedings that violate the right to a fair trial, Human Rights Watch said .

  A human rights activist in Saudi Arabia is facing trial on 9 April 2012 on charges which criminaliz e the rights to freedom of expression and assembly .

 Three Saudi Web managers whose sites cover political unrest in the country's highly restricted Eastern Province should be released from detention immediately, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

 On March 11, 2011, Saudi Arabian activists called for a "Day of Rage" wishing to bring the rising tide of protest to the kingdom. Only one person showed up. But underneath the quiet surface,

 Saudi Arabia has reportedly provided the rebels in Syria with a great number of weapons and military equipment.

 ""Don't talk to the foreigners," said the voice. We were interviewing a leading Shia dissident in his home when he was interrupted by the call.

 On 2 October 2011 , Saudi security forces arrested two old men (Hajj Sa'eed Abdul 'Al , 61 years old , and Hajj Hassan Ahmad Al Zaid , 72 years old ) from al-Awamiyah

 On 3 March 2011 , a peaceful demonstration of about300 people was held in the town of Awwamiya in Qatif, demanding the release of Shiite prisoners arrested recently and other prisoners who were held for more than a decade «forgotten prisoners without trial .

 On 27 February 2011 the General Intelligence (Al-Mabahith Al-'Aamma) of Al-Ahsa summoned the Shiite cleric (Sheikh Tawfiq al-Amir from the town of al-Hofouf in al-Ahsa district of the Eastern Province ) under the charge of calling for a constitutional monarchy ,

 The States Parties to the present Protocol, Considering that in order further to achieve the purposes of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (hereinafter referred to as the Covenant) and the implemenation of its provisions it would be appropriate to enable the Human Rights Commi...

 The General Assembly, Reaffirming the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action and the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, Recalling that the Beijing Platform for Action, pursuant to the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, supported the process initiated by the Commission on th...

 

 The following terms whenever used in this law shall have the meanings assigned to them as follows: Circulation : To put the printed material within the reach of a number of persons by distributing them freely or by offering them for sale or by sticking them to walls or by displaying them on the fr...

 Courts shall apply Shari’ah principles, as derived from the Qur’an and Sunnah (The Traditions of Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him) to the cases that are brought before them. They shall also apply laws promulgated by the state that do not contradict the provisions of the Qur’an and Sunnah, and sh...

 As herein used, the phrase “law practice” shall mean representation of third parties before courts of law, the Board of Grievances, and other committees as may be set up pursuant to laws, decrees and decisions to consider the cases falling within their respective jurisdictions. It shall also mean re...

 

 

 This document shows a dismissal of one of the citizens from his work in ARAMCO co. according to the order of the Interior Minister due to sectarian reasons and preventing his petition to come back to his work despite his hard circumstances

 Last spring, a young Saudi named Muhammad al-Wadani posted a YouTube video of himself calling for democracy, human rights, and more jobs. Echoing Egyptian protesters, he declared,

 Four months before the start of the 30th Olympic Summer Games in London, the International Olympic Committee needs to put Saudi Arabia’s lack of compliance with the IOC charter on the agenda at its next executive board meeting in May.

 At least seven young Shiite Muslims have been shot dead and several dozen wounded by security forces in Eastern Saudi Arabia in recent months.