Saudi paper, close to MBS, calls on US to strike Iran
Riyadh(ANN)- A Saudi newspaper owned by one of the king’s sons has called for military strikes on Iran, as world leaders plea for de-escalation of tension in the region. Iran “must be hit hard” said Arab News in an editorial published yesterday urging the US to not allow Iran’s actions “go unpunished”. The paper insists that “the next More...
Saudi Arabia executed 37 people: Here is who they were
New York(ANN)-A Shia academic, a disabled protester and a number of detained minors were among 37 people that Saudi Arabia executed in its recent mass execution on “terrorism” More...
Migrants in Libyan jail were reportedly seriously wounded in shooting
Tripoli, (ANN)- Migrants in a detention facility in the Libyan capital Tripoli have reportedly been seriously wounded in a random shooting, the UN migration agency IOM said on Tuesday. IOM More...
HRW: Torture continuing in Iraq jails
New York(ANN)-A Human Rights Watch statement today accused Iraqi officials of allowing torture to continue in Mosul detention facilities. “If the Iraqi government ignores More...
US rights report calls out ‘environment of impunity’ in Saudi Arabia
Washington(ANN)- US State Department report on human rights for 2018 acknowledged that government agents carried out the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the consulate of More...
Worst of the Worst
Democracy in Retreat, The Report Freedom in the World 2019 Of the 50 Countries Designated as Not Free, the Fallowing 13 Have The Worst Aggregate Scores For Political Rights and Civil Liberties In More...
As repression rises, Saudis pack up and leave
New York(ANN)-Increasingly more Saudi Arabians are leaving their home country and filing for asylum abroad in recent years, as repression rises in the kingdom, especially under Crown More...
UN: Saudi Khashoggi killing trial ‘not sufficient’
‘ New York(ANN)-The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) says it cannot assess the fairness of a trial underway in Saudi Arabia over More...
Somaliland: The Forgotten US-Sponsored ‘Holocaust’
Edwin Haroldson This year marks the 30th anniversary of what is often called the “Hargeisa Holocaust,” when about 90 percent of the city was destroyed and tens of thousands of Isaaqs were More...
37 protesters killed by police in Sudan: Amnesty
New York(ANN)-Amnesty International says it has received “credible reports” that Sudan’s security forces have shot dead nearly 40 protesters in clashes More...
