Saudi detains blogger, rights group urges release
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The U.S.-based Committee to Protect  Journalists has urged Saudi Arabia to release a blogger who has  been detained in the conservative Muslim kingdom for almost a  month for his writings.
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Comment is free: Nick Cohen: At last, there are signs the shameful censoring of Saudi critics in this country is to be challenged.
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A Vietnamese-born U.S. citizen was  detained in mid-August, a government spokesman said on Thursday  as rights groups complained he was arrested after using the  Internet to call for alternatives to one-party communist rule.
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A Saudi has been held in solitary confinement for a year at the Guantanamo Bay prison and is now so mentally unbalanced he considers insects his friends, lawyers said in a motion filed Monday seeking the man's removal from isolation.
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Egyptian bloggers have come into the  spotlight, on the one hand as an important forum for political  debate, on the other as the target of government attempts to  limit their freedom of expression.
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'Beaten, denied a fair trial, sentenced to death' Campaigning group Human Rights Watch has petitioned King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia to halt the execution by beheading of a "witch" who in 2006 was convicted of "witchcraft, recourse to jinn [supernatural beings], and slaughter of animals".â¦
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Saudi security forces arrest several people as protesters attempt to stage anti-monarchy protests.
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A US-based human rights group says at least 11 al-Qaida suspects have &quot;disappeared&quot; in US custody, and that some may have been tortured.
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An outspoken Saudi blogger is being held for âpurposes of interrogation,â the Saudi Interior Ministry confirmed.
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Two recent cases have caused journalists and bloggers to fear a government crackdown on freedom of expression.
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A Saudi human rights group on Saturday demanded the interior ministry explain why an Internet blogger who called for political reforms has been imprisoned.
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Britain has frozen the assets of an Islamic group it suspects of acting on behalf of Saudi dissident Saad al-Fagih, who has been named by the United Nations as a suspected al Qaeda associate.
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Ten men arrested in Saudi Arabia on suspicion of funding terrorism include known political activists detained in the past over calls for reform in the absolute monarchy, a lawyer said on Sunday.
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Description: The US government will release Yaser Hamdi, an American born Saudi who was designated an combatant, into the custody of Saudi Arabia.
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U.S. authorities are releasing one of 11 Kuwaiti detainees held at a military detention center for terror suspects in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, raising questions about why others are not being freed, according to a group of family members and a lawyer.
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JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia, Feb. 6 -- Saudi police have arrested 10 men and accused them of collecting donations to fund terrorist acts outside the kingdom, the Interior Ministry said. But a lawyer and a prominent dissident said that at least seven of the men were Saudi democracy activists whose arrest...
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A federal judge said yesterday that he will rule within days on a court action seeking the release of a Falls Church man whose family says he is being improperly detained in Saudi Arabia at the behest of US authorities.