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Internal Saudi counter-terrorism measures remain shrouded in mystery
Christopher Boucek [Associate, Middle East Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace]: "Early this week Human Rights Watch released a new report on internal security in Saudi Arabia. The report is very fair and makes many good points (More) |
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Saudi Arabia illegally detaining thousands of terrorism suspects: HRW
Saudi Arabia is illegally detaining thousands under the auspices of combating terrorism, according to a report published Monday by Human Rights Watch (HRW) . HRW reports that since 2003, thousands of terrorism suspects have been detained indefinit (More) |
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Saudi Arabia secretly detaining thousands: rights group
Saudi Arabian officials are allegedly using anti-terrorism measures as an excuse to secretly detain, imprison, torture, and even kill thousands of people, according to a Wednesday report by Amnesty International (AI) . In its report, AI also called (More) |
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Saudi court convicts 330 on terrorism charges
A court in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday convicted 330 people on terrorism-related charges, according to a report by the state-run Saudi Press Agency . The Bureau of Investigation and Public Prosecution brought charges including belonging to a terrorist (More) |
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Saudi rehabilitation program a model for Guantanamo detainee repatriation
Christopher Boucek [Associate, Middle East Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace] "On Friday June 12 it was announced that three more Saudi detainees held at Guantanamo Bay had been repatriated back to the kingdom. With their arri (More) |
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US human trafficking report adds 6 countries to worst offenders list
The US State Department (DOS) on Tuesday added Chad, Eritrea, Malaysia, Niger, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe to its list of countries with the worst human trafficking records in the Trafficking in Persons Report 2009 [materials; introduction, PDF]. The c (More) |
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Yemen denies plans to transfer Guantanamo detainees to Saudi Arabia
The government of Yemen denied Sunday that it had reached an agreement with the US to transfer nearly 100 Yemeni Guantanamo Bay detainees to Saudi Arabia for rehabilitation. According to a statement from the Yemen Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Y (More) |
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Three Guantanamo detainees repatriated to Saudi Arabia
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Friday that three Guantanamo Bay detainees have been transferred to Saudi Arabia, their country of origin, where they will undergo judicial review and rehabilitation. Khalid Saad Mohammed, Abdalaziz Ka (More) |
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Ex-Guantanamo detainee at center of Supreme Court case alleges torture
Former Guantanamo Bay detainee at the center of a landmark Supreme Court case Lakhdar Boumediene [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] said in an interview with ABC News released Monday that he was tortured by American personnel at the detention faci (More) |
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Somalia at the Crossroads: Options for the World Community
JURIST Guest Columnist Zeray Yihdego of Oxford Brookes University School of Social Sciences and Law says that the UN and the world's powers must act to help stabilize Somalia, too long plagued by clan infighting, lawlessness, regional conflict in (More) |
UN deadline for Iraq withdrawal from Kuwait expires
On January 15, 1991, the deadline issued by United Nations for Iraq to withdraw its troops from of Kuwait expired. After Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 678, giving Iraq until January 15, 1991 to leave.
