Executions and detentions hang over Saudi Arabia legal reforms
Announced last year by the crown prince, the measures, including the first written penal code, appear to align with Saudi Arabia's goal of opening up to the world
Israeli lawyer and Hungarian rights group target Pegasus spyware
An Israeli lawyer said Saturday he was working with a rights group in Hungary to pursue authorities and Israeli firm NSO Group on behalf of Hungarian journalists allegedly targeted with Pegasus spyware. Eitay Mack said he had asked the Israeli attorney general to investigate how ...
Saudi Arabia says France arrested wrong man over Jamal Khashoggi murder
The Saudi Embassy in Paris issued a statement saying the man arrested "has nothing to do with the case in question" and demanded his immediate release.
Saudi operatives who killed Jamal Khashoggi received paramilitary training in U.S.
The training, approved by the State Department, underscores the perils of military partnerships with repressive governments.
Biden’s U.S.-Saudi re-calibration
Biden, like every other U.S. president since Dwight Eisenhower in the 1950s, realizes that Saudi Arabia is vital to maintaining American strategic interests.
Murder in the consulate: Pressure grows on Saudi crown prince
Saudi Arabia's crown prince, accused in a U.S. intelligence report of approving an operation to capture or kill a prominent journalist, crushed dissent and sidelined rivals in a push for power that has delighted admirers, unsettled Riyadh's traditional foreign allies and shocked human rights ...
Biden and Saudi King Salman talk by phone ahead of Khashoggi report
The Saudi journalist and U.S. resident was lured to the Saudi mission in Istanbul in 2018 then killed and dismembered by agents linked to the Saudi crown prince.
Saudi Arabia jails eight over Jamal Khashoggi murder as fiancee decries trial
The trial was criticized by a U.N. official and human rights campaigners who said the masterminds of the murder remained free.
Istanbul prosecutor indicts Saudi suspects for Khashoggi killing
Istanbul prosecutors said on Wednesday they had prepared an indictment against a close aide to Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and a former deputy head of general intelligence over the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The prosecutor's office accused the two men of ...
Saudi Arabia launched on Sunday a new logistics zone open to private investors in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah, as part of a wider industrial initiative to diversify the economy away from oil and create jobs for Saudis. The al Khomra zone — ...
Prominent Saudi women's rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul has rejected a proposal to secure her release from prison in exchange for a video statement denying reports she was tortured in custody, her family said on Tuesday. Hathloul, along with at least a dozen other women's rights ...
Facebook says it dismantled covert influence campaign tied to Saudi government
People connected to the government of Saudi Arabia have run a network of fake accounts and pages on Facebook to promote state propaganda and attack regional rivals, the social media giant said on Thursday. Facebook said it had suspended more than 350 accounts and pages ...
