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30 Dec 2020, 4:00 am by Lawyers' Rights Watch Canada
Saudi Arabia tortures women who successfully advocated to end the ban on women driving In June 2018, the world celebrated when Saudi Arabia granted women the right to drive. [read post]
To be sentenced for her activism for the very reforms that MBS and the Saudi kingdom so proudly tout is the ultimate hypocrisy. [read post]
28 Dec 2020, 7:58 am by Yasmina Abouzzohour
While Saudi Arabia remains silent on the possibility of normalization, it is one of the Trump administration’s closest allies in the region and may follow Morocco’s example in the future, especially if the rumored NEOM meeting between Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did indeed take place. [read post]
17 Dec 2020, 5:31 am by Eugene Volokh
" Given that MBS is the current Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, however, his WhatsApp telephone number is highly sensitive information that is not in the public domain…. [read post]
11 Dec 2020, 9:16 am by Ian J. Lynch
Shortly after that attack, reports emerged while Saudi King Salman was visiting Moscow that the kingdom had agreed to purchase S-400s. [read post]
8 Dec 2020, 9:00 pm by Kevin Kaufman
Note: All data and methodological notes are accessible in our GitHub repository. [read post]
1 Dec 2020, 8:36 am by Gregory D. Johnsen
The U.S. trained Saudi pilots, sold the kingdom billions in weapons, and performed mid-air refueling for Saudi jets on bombing runs to Yemen, a shocking number of which resulted in civilian casualties. [read post]
25 Nov 2020, 9:57 am by Abby Lemert, Eleanor Runde
Asia-Pacific Trade Deal RCEP Is Signed; Xi Signals Potential Interest in CPTPP On Nov. 15, the 10 countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) plus China, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand signed the world’s largest free trade agreement by population. [read post]
20 Nov 2020, 4:00 am by Michael Woods and Gordon LaFortune
Addressing a complaint by Qatar, the Panel found that it had established a prima facie case that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) had failed to protect the intellectual property of Qatari rights holders from piracy of their broadcast rights for film and television programming, contrary to its obligations under the WTO Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS). [read post]
The report followed Douhan’s 12-day visit to Qatar to “assess the impact of unilateral sanctions imposed by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the Kingdom of Bahrain and the Arab Republic of Egypt. [read post]
The Kingdom hopes these reforms will improve the job market, reduce the disparity between Saudi and migrant workers, and strengthen Saudi Arabia’s presence in the global market sphere. [read post]
2 Nov 2020, 4:51 am
However, the decree has not yet taken effect, and rights groups warn that the death penalty is still in place.Under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which Saudi Arabia has signed, the death penalty is outlawed for crimes committed by minors.Overall, the Wahhabi kingdom has one of the worst human rights records in the world with violations committed mainly by its police and security forces.Human Rights Watch recently obtained and analysed the charge sheets for… [read post]
Much of the Trump administration’s Middle East policy has centered on its close relationship with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and to a lesser extent Egypt—three allied governments that are often on the opposite side of regional affairs from Turkey because of their conflicting views over the threat posed by the Muslim Brotherhood and related popular Islamic movements. [read post]
30 Oct 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Administration Plans to Nominate Bipartisan Pair to Hobbled FEC Roll Call – Kate Ackley | Published: 10/28/2020 After leaving so many vacancies at the FEC that it could not hold meetings for most of the 2020 campaign cycle, the Trump administration said it planned to nominate a bipartisan pair to the hobbled agency. [read post]
29 Oct 2020, 9:07 pm by Joe Whitworth
Contaminated seeds have also been sent to Andorra, Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom. [read post]
The US Central Intelligence Agency found that MBS said if he could not lure Khashoggi back to Saudi Arabia on his own, “[they] could possibly lure him outside Saudi Arabia and make arrangements. [read post]
16 Oct 2020, 9:05 pm by Joe Whitworth
Raw material for the products came from Poland and they were distributed to Brunei, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Falkland Islands, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Guernsey, Ireland, Israel, Jersey, Malta, Norway, Saint Helena, Saudi Arabia Spain and Thailand. [read post]
15 Oct 2020, 5:01 am by Shayan Karbassi
News of Saudi Arabia’s alleged undeclared nuclear cooperation with China to extract uranium yellowcake from uranium ore has generated bipartisan concern from U.S. lawmakers over the kingdom’s nuclear weapons intentions, and it may stoke existing tensions between the White House and Congress over the administration’s lack of transparency over the United States’s own negotiations with Saudi Arabia for civil nuclear cooperation. [read post]
2 Oct 2020, 4:12 pm by INFORRM
Showtime’s premiere of its original documentary Kingdom of Silence, which examines the relationship between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia as a backdrop to the assassination. [read post]
In a statement read before the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), 29 member states condemned the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia over serious human rights violations and called for accountability for the 2018 murder of a Washington Post journalist. [read post]