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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaOn death row in Saudi Arabia: forgotten Pakistani prisoners
Saudi Arabia executes more Pakistanis than any other nationality, but Pakistan continues to fail its citizens in...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaAfter Khashoggi: nowhere is safe for dissent
How states weaponize diplomatic immunity against dissidents abroad.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaAfter Khashoggi: how diplomatic space became a crime scene
In a world where autocratic regimes are on the rise worldwide, a criminal turn of diplomatic missions may be underway.
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Published in: HomeDismal failure of Saudi defences may entangle US just where Iran wants it
Long-term political consequences could be even more serious for the US and its allies than the uselessness of their...
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Published in: HomeSaudi oil plant attack shows how fast warfare by the weak is changing
All the billions Saudi Arabia has spent on military hardware, plus a major US and UK military presence, couldn’t...
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Published in: HomeIt will take more than Donald Trump to make Iran submit
The Revolutionary Guards are “Iran’s military-industrial complex”, and Trump’s provocations only make them stronger.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaHow to lobby Washington to death
A business model from hell and the war in Yemen.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKBAE’s evasive justifications for arming Saudi’s Yemen war
Campaigners attended the UK arms company’s AGM and asked some tough questions. The answers failed to convince.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaSpreading sectarianism in the Muslim world
Which country carries most responsibility for the spread of sectarianism in the muslim world? Answer: Saudi Arabia
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Published in: HomeMigrant crisis in Europe? Look at Yemen
Just to be clear, this means that more desperate people crossed the Red Sea into Yemen in 2018 than crossed the...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaNow streaming: censorship
How should companies like Netflix respond when repressive governments order the removal of critical content?
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaDid the US and Britain collude in the murder of Jamal Khashoggi?
With Khashoggi’s murder, many secrets that both the Kingdom and its western allies wanted buried, will stay that way.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKHow Britain is a bad influence on the Gulf states – an interview with David Wearing
Could Britain ever promote democracy in the Gulf? Only if it turns its own foreign policy away from neoliberalism...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaPolitics “as if” in Riyadh
Saudi Arabia first denied the Khashoggi murder and then blamed it on rogue security agents. Neither version has...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaFamine in Yemen: long announced, now on our screens
What are world leaders doing? Where is the ‘international community’ Yemenis so often appeal to?
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Natural History Museum has been used by the Saudi regime
At a time when the Saudis are intensifying their crackdown on human rights, yesterday’s reception gave all the wrong...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe West’s approach to Saudi Arabia: ‘one step forward, two steps back’
Western powers are actively enabling the very human rights violations they seek to expose.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKBritain’s warfare state
Britain needs an industrial strategy. At the same time, Britain needs to move away from its imperial pretensions to...
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Published in: 50.50Arrests of women’s rights activists put Saudi Arabia on the wrong side of history
From Indonesia to Saudi Arabia, Muslim women’s movements for equality are increasingly interconnected – and unstoppable.
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Published in: HomeGassing and selective applications of a ‘Red Line’: lest we forget
The gassing of people is considered exceptionally inhumane, officially a categorical “red line” dividing good from...