Press TV - Saudi Arabia must "immediately and unconditionally" release all women it has arrested and imprisoned on charges relating to their peaceful defense of human rights, officials mandated by the United Nations say. In a statement on Friday, UN human rights experts, who report to the UN Human Rights Council, called for the release of six ...

IRNA Iranian ambassador to London says Riyadh is long immune of criticisms of its conducts in spreading terorism and violating human rights. It is for a long time that Riyadh is immune from criticism against its role in spread of terrorism and violation of human rights, Hamid Baeidinejad said on Friday, adding that it seems even Saudi critics are ...

Alwaght - Saudi Arabia's development plan, known as Saudi Vision 2030, which was introduced by the Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in 2016 has been subject of the Saudi media news and analyses ever since. The program, which is praised as bringing to the Arab kingdom the economic and social development equally, is expected to develop the oil-dependent ...

IFP - A former Iranian diplomat says the expulsion of the Canadian ambassador from Saudi Arabia was meant to be an object lesson for others. Saudi Arabia has, in recent months, apprehended and incarcerated a large number of university professors, poets, clergymen and businessmen on charges of acting against national security. The kingdom has ...

IFP - The Saudi princes targeted in an anti-corruption campaign inside the kingdom are living in a very humiliating situation, said a dissident Saudi prince, adding that monitoring devices are fitted to their legs so Saudi leaders can monitor their movement. The Saudi government detained up to 300 princes and officials as part of an alleged ...

IFP - Amid mounting criticism of Saudi Arabia over its human rights record, a new report by a nonprofit organization shows that the number of beheadings in the kingdom during the first quarter of 2018 rose by over 70 percent compared to the same period last year. In its latest report published Saturday, the European Saudi Organization for Human ...

Press TV - Britains ambassador to Riyadh has defended the Saudi regimes heavy-handed crackdown on the minority Shia Muslims in Eastern Province, drawing criticisms from human rights activists. Last year, Awamiyah, mainly populated by Shia Muslims, witnessed angry protests against the Riyadh regime over its controversial campaign to raze the ...

Press TV - Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is currently in London on a three-day visit that experts believeis aimed at boosting military ties between the two sides. His arrival was marked by a wave of protests against Riyadhs human rights violations and its deadly war on Yemen, forwhich the UK has been a sponsor. In April 2013, when the ...

Press TV - Saudi Arabia is likely to bag over $100 billion in monetary settlement deals with princes and businessmen detained as part of its so-called anti-graft purge, a senior government official says. The official, who was speaking on condition of anonymity, told Bloomberg on Monday that the settlement payments were a combination of cash,...

Press TV - Saudi officials have arrested nearly a dozen princes amid the oil-rich kingdoms purported anti-graft campaign, which is considered the biggest purge of political dissidents and the elite in the countrys modern history. Members of theSaudi Arabian Royal Guard Regimentarrested 11 princes outside the Royal Palace in Riyadh on Saturday ...

Press TV - Saudi Arabia has executed six Yemeni men and a Saudi man, bringing to 130 the total number of the people beheaded by the kingdom since the beginning of the year. The Saudi Interior Ministry said in a statement cited by the SPA news agency on Tuesday that the Yemenis were executed in Abha, the capital ofthe southern province of Assir. According ...

Press TV - Saudi Arabia's razing of the Shia city of Awamiyah has raised many questions marks, but oneobvious answer should be sought in the kingdom's failures in Yemen as well as in Iraq, Syria and elsewhere. The Wahhabi rulers in Riyadh have always looked at the oil-rich Eastern Province with suspicion because of its Shia-majority population,...

Press TV - Ten Nobel laureates from across the world have called on Saudi Arabia to hold off on the execution of 14 Shia citizens convicted of protest-related charges. In an open letter released late Friday, the laureates urged King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, his son, to "extend the hand of mercy" and refrain from ratifying ...

Press TV - A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced distinguished Shia cleric Ayatollah Sheikh Hussein al-Radhi to 13 years in prison as the Riyadh regime presses ahead with its heavy-handed crackdown onmembers of the religious community. The Specialized Criminal Court in Riyadh passed the ruling on the 66-year-old clergymanon Thursday, Arabic-...

Press TV - The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has warned that 14 Shia Saudi citizens are at imminent risk of execution after Saudi Arabias Supreme Court upheld their death sentences in mid-July following an unfair trial over protest-related charges. In a Thursday report, the HRW cited the families of the 14 men as saying that they were transferred ...

Press TV - Saudi military bulldozers have almost razed Awamiyah to the ground amid the deadly crackdown on the besieged Shia town, forcing hundreds of its residents to flee their homes. The Middle East Eye news portal cited activists as saying that authorities have resorted to compulsory evictions in and around the historic al-Mosara district ...

Press TV - A court in Saudi Arabia has postponed until next month the trial of distinguished Shia cleric Ayatollah al-Sheikh Hussein al-Radhi over his anti-regime comments as Riyadh presses ahead with its heavy-handed crackdown onmembers of the religious community. His lawyer and human rights advocate, Taha al-Hajji, said on Thursday that ...

Press TV- An independent human rights organization says Saudi Arabia has arrested two rights campaigners for their online activities amid unrelentingcrackdownon free speech in the kingdom. In a press release published on its website on Tuesday, the [Persian] Gulf Center for Human Rights ([P]GCHR) said Essam Koshak and Ahmed al-Mshikhs were taken ...

Press TV- Saudi Arabia intends to behead a disabled man on charges of alleged participation in anti-government protestrallies, a rights group warns. The kingdoms secretive Specialized Criminal Court in the capital Riyadh sentenced Munir al-Adam to death for alleged attacks on police and other offences that it said occurred during demonstrations ...