Saudi-Arabia

ODVV’s recommendations to the Swedish government in the 3rd round of the UPR of the human rights situation, combating Islamophobia, cutting military cooperation with Abu Dhabi and Riyadh

The Saudi media and human rights activists reported that the Saudi Arabian government intends to execute 6 youths from the Al-Qatif province in the coming days. There are serious concerns over the...

Every time the United Nations makes concessions that allow perpetrators of crimes under international law to evade criticism or justice, it emboldens others to commit violations that cause immense...

The vote will not be legally binding, but will be very embarrassing for Saudi Arabia, and governments continuing to supply military equipment.

In the last week Saudi Arabian authorities have intensified their crackdown on freedom of expression, detaining more than 20 prominent religious figures, writers, journalists, academics and...

Reiterating that attacks targeting civilians are prohibited under international law, the United Nations human rights office confirmed dozens of casualties in airstrikes on villages near the...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The majority of deaths from Yemen's cholera outbreak have occurred in rebel-controlled areas cut off from supplies due to airstrikes and blockades by a...

A Saudi-led military coalition and the government of Yemen denied four oil tankers access to a Yemeni port last week, a move that could hurt the flow of aid and exacerbate a cholera outbreak in the...

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Sunday that it is U.S. cronies in the Middle East rather than Iran who promote terrorism financially and ideologically, rapping Washington’s...

The Saudi Arabian government is employing the death penalty as a political weapon to silence dissent, said Amnesty International, following the execution of four Shi’a men in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern...

Rights group and legal experts say arming Riyadh and Abu Dhabi makes the UK complicit in alleged war crimes. London court dismisses case that tried to stop Britain's multibillion-pound arms sales...

The United Nations human rights chief expressed strong concern about international demands that Qatar close down the Al Jazeera network and other affiliated media outlets as “extraordinary,...

Thousands of people in the [Persian] Gulf face the prospect of their lives being further disrupted and their families torn apart as new arbitrary measures announced by Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the...

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has strongly criticized acts of fearmongering against Iran, describing it as a misleading factor that prompted the West to tolerate Wahhabism.

The rise in death sentences against Saudi Arabian Shia is alarming and suggests that the authorities are using the death penalty to settle scores and crush dissent under the guise of combating...

The Iranian Foreign Ministry on Monday called on Qatar and Saudi Arabia to settle their disputes through dialogue.

Saudi Arabia must stop using its anti-terror law to violate the right to free speech of its people, and end the use of torture terrorist suspects during investigations, a United Nations human...

An independent United Nations expert urged Saudi officials to use their bold new plan for economic transformation to improve the human rights of women and the poor.

Human rights activists in Saudi Arabia are an endangered species. One by one they are vanishing – prosecuted, jailed, intimidated into silence or forced into exile

Saudi Arabia should immediately abandon all use of cluster munitions, destroy its stockpile and accede to the international Convention on Cluster Munitions, Amnesty International said after the...