Saudi Arabia

HRW alarmed by Saudi’s mass trial of Palestinians, Jordanians

Apr 18, 2020 01:32

Human Rights Watch (HRW) raises serious questions about the circumstances surrounding Saudi Arabia’s mass arrest, detention, and trial of scores of Palestinians and Jordanians for, what Riyadh calls, association with an unnamed “terrorist organization.”
Saudi-led coalition carries out 230 airstrikes in spite of truce claim: Yemen army

Apr 17, 2020 00:43

The Spokesman for Yemen’s Armed Forces has rejected a two-week ceasefire declared by the Saudi-led coalition, which is engaged in a brutal military campaign against the West Asian country, saying the alliance has carried out over 200 airstrikes despite the truce announced last week.
Executions double in Saudi Arabia under Salman: Group

Apr 16, 2020 08:41

Saudi Arabia carried out its 800th execution last week, marking an almost two-fold increase in the use of the medieval practice since Salman assumed power in 2015, a rights group says.
UK arms giant sold £15bn in weapons to Saudi Arabia during Yemen war: Report

Apr 15, 2020 03:04

Britain’s leading arms manufacturer is found to have sold above £15 billion ($18.9) worth of arms to Saudi Arabia since the kingdom started a brutal war against Yemen, the Arab world’s most impoverished nation.
Migrant workers face predicament in Persian Gulf countries amid pandemic

Apr 15, 2020 03:00

Arab countries in the Persian Gulf region have locked down over-crowded labor camps and areas with large populations of low-wage workers in an attempt to curb the spread of the new coronavirus, leaving migrant workers stranded and jobless.
Saudi regime forces kill tribal activist after resisting deportation over NEOM megacity project

Apr 15, 2020 02:48

Saudi regime forces have reportedly shot and killed a tribal activist in the northwestern Tabuk region of the kingdom after he dismissed a demolition order and resisted leaving his home to allow construction of the controversial megacity project NEOM pursued by Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman in the area.
Ansarullah reports rise in Saudi-led aggression after truce claim

Apr 14, 2020 13:29

Yemen’s Ansarullah movement says the invading Saudi Arabia-led coalition has even ramped up its acts of aggression against the impoverished country after claiming it had initiated a voluntary ceasefire.
UN warns Saudi deportation of Ethiopian migrants to fuel coronavirus spread

Apr 14, 2020 01:55

The United Nations says Saudi Arabia’s recent deportation of thousands of Ethiopian migrants will risk the spread of the new coronavirus, urging Riyadh to suspend the practice for the time being.
Financial toll of Saudi-led war on Yemen’s telecom sector exceeds $4bn: Ministry

Apr 14, 2020 01:45

The Yemeni Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Technology says the financial toll on the country’s telecom sector five years after a military alliance led by Saudi Arabia began bombing the impoverished Arab state stands at billions of dollars.
Saudi Arabia submits to oil output cut after US threat

Apr 13, 2020 04:13

OPEC and other large oil producers led by Russia have approved a deal to cut output, after the US threatened to take measures against Saudi Arabia over its crude price war with Moscow.