NGO demands details of Saudi blogger's arrest
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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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KABUL -- While trolling the Internet last October, Afghan journalism student Sayed Perwiz Kambakhsh came across some articles that questioned the limits of women's rights under Islam. According to Afghan prosecutors, he downloaded the articles and circulated them on campus.
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A rights group urges Saudi Arabia to halt the execution of a woman convicted of witchcraft.
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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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Bloggers have used the Internet to force Chinese officials into investigating what appears to have been a brutal beating by other government officials.
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Human rights groups ask the US to reveal the whereabouts of 39 people allegedly held in secret CIA-run prisons.
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Six human rights groups urged the U.S. government on Thursday to name and explain the whereabouts of 39 people they said were believed to have been held in U.S. custody and "disappeared."
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Slashdot is covering the arrest of Keith Henson.  He made a joke on a newsgroup, now he's arrested for defying a fundamentalist religion with legions of zealous lawyers.
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By MAAMOUN YOUSSEF  CAIRO, Egypt - Saudi police have arrested three men suspected of links to al-Qaida, alleging they used the Internet to plan terrorist attacks, recruit supporters and publish tracts on militant ideology, the Interior Ministry said Tuesday.
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The United States said Thursday it has raised with Saudi Arabia its arrest of an Internet blogger who aired anti-government views, with Washington insisting on freedom of expression.
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An American jailed in Saudi Arabia on suspicion of terrorist ties may have a right to challenge his detention in an American court if evidence shows he was arrested at the behest of the U.S. government, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
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HONG KONG - The relatives and political colleagues of a Hong Kong democracy activist jailed in China for soliciting a prostitute yesterday called on the Chinese authorities to release him on medical grounds, a colleague said.
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MANAMA: A Bahraini man has been arrested in Saudi Arabia, the family&#39;s lawyer told AFP yesterday. &quot;Mohamad Khan was arrested by Saudi authorities at about 10pm on Saturday after crossing the King Fahad Causeway,&quot; said Abdullah Hashim.
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JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia, June 27 -- A member of Saudi Arabia's religious police will face trial for his suspected involvement in the death of a man in custody, authorities said,  the second such case against enforcers of the country's strict moral code.
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JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia, Dec. 31 -- Saudi Arabia's most popular blogger, Fouad al-Farhan, has been detained for questioning, an Interior Ministry spokesman confirmed Monday. It was the first known arrest of an online critic in the kingdom.
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The arrest of a Catholic priest drew criticism from human rights groups Thursday, who charged that the US-backed government was illegally trying to suppress support for ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
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The Bush administration has brought its concerns about the detention of a well-known blogger to the Saudi Arabian government at "a relatively senior level," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said Thursday.