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Beheading of domestic worker shows Saudi Arabia at odds with ...
9 January 2013

A Sri Lankan domestic worker has been beheaded in Saudi Arabia for a crime she allegedly committed while still a child.

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Sri Lankan woman at risk of execution in Saudi Arabia | Amnesty ...
8 January 2013

A young Sri Lankan woman is at imminent risk of execution in Saudi Arabia for a crime she allegedly committed whilst under the age of 18.

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Saudi Arabia: 11 women still held after protest | Amnesty ...
8 January 2013

At least 11 women are still believed to be in detention in Saudi Arabia after being detained at a protest on 5 January.

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Amnesty International | Sri Lankan woman at risk of execution in ...
8 January 2013

A young Sri Lankan woman is at imminent risk of execution in Saudi Arabia for a crime she allegedly committed whilst under the age of 18, prompting Amnesty ...

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Saudi Arabia: Further information: Sri Lankan at risk of execution ...
7 January 2013

After exhausting all of her appeals, Rizana Nafeek is at imminent risk of execution in Saudi Arabia for a crime she allegedly committed while under the age of 18 ...

Urgent Action       MDE 23/002/2013

Saudi Arabia: Website founder on trial for "apostasy": Raif Badawi
4 January 2013

A man who set up a website in Saudi Arabia has been put on trial for "apostasy", which carries the death penalty. Amnesty International considers him a prisoner ...

Urgent Action       MDE 23/001/2013

Qatar: Ex-diplomat could be returned, tortured
4 January 2013

The Qatari authorities are preparing to forcibly return a former diplomat to Saudi Arabia, where he would be at grave risk of detention and possibly torture or ...

Urgent Action       MDE 22/001/2013

Saudi Arabia must release or charge detained peaceful protesters ...
28 November 2012

Some 15 men are being held following their arrest in Riyadh during a peaceful protest at the continued detention and ill-treatment of relatives.

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Saudi Arabia: Further information: Amputation sentences commuted
23 November 2012

Six men sentenced to amputation of their right hands and left feet for “highway robbery” in Saudi Arabia are now known to have had their sentences commuted by the ...

Urgent Action       MDE 23/022/2012

Saudi Arabia: Two men at imminent risk of execution
8 November 2012

Yemeni national Ibrahim bin Mohammad bin Saghir Hassan and Syrian national Jum'a Ali al-Talib may be at imminent risk of execution in Saudi Arabia for drug-related ...

Urgent Action       MDE 23/021/2012