Saudi lashes 'to silence dissent'
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Saudi Arabia is using a form of torture - flogging - to silence dissent in the kingdom, a human rights group says.
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Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah said Britain failed to act on intelligence from his country which may have stopped the London bombings, before arriving here Monday for a controversial state visit.
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Saudi Arabia tells citizens not to visit Lebanon as it passes through a worst security and political crisis.
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JEDDAH, 17 December 2004 - A call by London-based dissident, Saad Al-Faqih, to his followers to stage anti-government demonstrations across the Kingdom fell on deaf ears yesterday.
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King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia accused Britain on Monday of failing to act on information the Saudis provided that might have averted London's deadly July 7, 2005, suicide bombings
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A man identified as Osama bin Laden (news - bio) bitterly criticized the Saudi regime in an audiotape posted on an Islamic Web site on Thursday.
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Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States criticized Washington on Wednesday for its "rhetoric and bombast" in dealing with Arab countries and urged greater efforts to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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A prominent Saudi dissident said Wednesday that he had not been informed by authorities about a move in the United Nations to freeze his assets and prevent him from traveling.
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Tony Blair has hit back on "cash for honours" allegations and criticism over the dropping of a Saudi arms inquiry.
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Saudi Arabia has detained five people  suspected of spreading Islamic militant ideology in the  kingdom, which is battling an 18-month wave of al Qaeda  violence, the Interior Ministry said Saturday.
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Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah accuses Britain of doing too little to fight international terrorism.
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Saudi security forces surrounded a Riyadh mosque and helicopters clattered overhead Friday amid calls by a London-based Saudi dissident for demonstrations against the royal family, but worshippers dispersed peacefully after prayers.
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RIYADH: A Saudi dissident yesterday failed to pull off protests called in Riyadh and Jeddah. Hundreds of police and special forces were deployed to stifle one of the boldest attempts to defy the ban on public displays of discontent.
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- A senior Saudi royal ruled out direct elections to Saudi Arabia's unelected parliament in published comments, days after King Abdullah appeared to hold open the possibility.
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The mixture of alarm, condemnation and muted admiration with which Saudis have reacted to Monday&#39;s raid on the US consulate in Jeddah reveals the variety of opinion in a country
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Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah makes a rare state visit to Britain on Monday after criticising London's anti-terrorism record and facing protests over alleged human rights abuses and corruption.
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WASHINGTON - Saudi Arabia has failed to take substantial steps to promote religious tolerance, despite assurances from the Bush administration that the kingdom has made progress on reform, a US watchdog group said yesterday. A report by the US Commission on International Religious Freedom called for new congressional scrutiny of Saudi Arabia's progress in implementing religious reform policies announced in ...