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Saudi Arabia: Further information: Website founder's case before ...
28 March 2013

The case of Raif Badawi, a man who set up a website in Saudi Arabia, has now come before an appeal court. Amnesty International considers Raif Badawi a prisoner ...

Urgent Action       MDE 23/012/2013

Saudi Arabia: Further information: Seven men publicly executed in ...
14 March 2013

Seven Saudi Arabian men were publicly executed on 13 March in Abha, Saudi Arabia, despite appeals by family and international organizations to halt the executions ...

Urgent Action       MDE 23/011/2013

Saudi Arabia: Seven men executed in act of sheer brutality ...
13 March 2013

Seven men are executed in Saudi Arabia after allegedly being forced to “confess” to charges of armed robbery.

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Saudi Arabia punishes two activists for voicing opinion | Amnesty ...
11 March 2013

Two human rights activists are sentenced to five and 10 years' imprisonment in Saudi Arabia as punishment for their work.

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Saudi Arabia: Further information: NGO founders jailed for ...
11 March 2013

Two of the co-founders of a Saudi Arabian human rights organization have been imprisoned on charges related to their human rights activism and criticism of the ...

Urgent Action       MDE 23/010/2013

Saudi Arabia: Further information: Executions of seven men ...
5 March 2013

Seven Saudi Arabian men have had their executions postponed (they were originally scheduled for 5 March). They could be executed as early as next week.

Urgent Action       MDE 23/009/2013

Five reasons why Saudi Arabia must urgently abolish the death ...
5 March 2013

Seven men are due to be executed in Saudi Arabia next week after being allegedly tortured into “confessing” to a crime. Here, five reasons why the death penalty ...

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Saudi Arabia: Seven men to be executed
1 March 2013

Seven Saudi Arabian men are scheduled to be executed on 5 March 2013. They have said they were tortured to make them “confess”, and sentenced to death following ...

Urgent Action       MDE 23/008/2013

Amnesty International | Saudi Arabia must stop playing “cat and ...
1 March 2013

Hundreds of people detained in Saudi Arabia in the wake of a protest against the incarceration without charge or trial of their relatives must be immediately and ...

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Saudi Arabia must stop playing 'cat and mouse' game with peaceful ...
1 March 2013

Hundreds of people are detained in Saudi Arabia in the wake of a protest against the incarceration without charge or trial of their relatives.

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