Shia are kept out of "critical jobs" in the armed forces and the security services, and not one of the three hundred Shia girls' schools in the Eastern Province has a Shia principal. Privacy Policy Fayadh was detained by the country's religious police in 2013 in Abha, in southwest Saudi Arabia, and then rearrested and tried in early 2014. When the Ethiopian workers' employers asked security forces for what reason they were arrested, they said "for practising Christianity". [78], In 1990, when 47 Saudi women drove cars through the streets of Riyadh in protest against the ban, protestors were punished. Children of foreigners born in Saudi Arabia don’t have rights of local citizenship and automatically assume the nationality of the parents. If one of the parents is a national of Saudi Arabia, the child will usually be granted local nationality and may later become a national of Saudi Arabia … [185], In 2008, a prominent Saudi blogger and reformist, Fouad al-Farhan, was jailed for posting comments online that were critical of Saudi business, religious and media figures, signifying a move by the government to step up its censorship of the Internet within its borders. 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[232], In August 2018, a prominent Saudi cleric, Ahmed al-Amari, was detained by the Saudi authorities over the allegations of being associated with scholar and Saudi royal family critic Safar al-Hawali. The golfer cited she cannot ignore what organizations like Amnesty International have highlighted. [206], On April 9, 2020, a prominent human rights activists Dr. Abdullah al-Hamid died in the prison after suffering a stroke. The Saudi government, which enforces sharia law under the absolute rule of the House of Saud, have been accused of and denounced by various international organizations and governments for violating multiple human rights within the country. Kutbi's lawyer and son said half the sentence was suspended, but that he was also banned from writing for 15 years and travelling abroad for five, and fined US$26,600. [256][257], In 2004, the National Society for Human Rights, associated with the Saudi government, was created. The organization in its 125-page report cited that Saudi Arabia's failure to act against beoutQ was a breach of WTO rules with its obligations under the TRIPS Agreement on intellectual property. [50][57] Men are free to abuse women in Saudi Arabia, with reports of women being locked in their rooms for months or threatened with starvation or shooting for offenses such as getting the wrong kind of haircut or being in a relationship with a man the family has not approved. The authorities continued to try individuals before the Specialized Criminal Court (SCC), a counter-terror court, on charges arising from the peaceful expression of views, in some cases on capital charges. CEDAW also expressed concerns over her health conditions, as the Saudi authority was not following the UN Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners, which allows prisoners to regularly contact their family members. Flogging was carried out in prisons. [73], During April and May 2020, Princess Basmah bint Saud bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, who has been imprisoned for the past fourteen months, expected to be granted mercy and released, but wasn't. The claim was made based on what is said to be a confidential internal order, signed in the name of Saud al-Qahtani, a close aide of the crown prince Mohammed bin Salman also named in the murder of Khashoggi. [134], The Saudi government has often been viewed as an active oppressor of Shias[142] because of the funding of the Wahabbi ideology which denounces the Shia faith. Neither the Government nor society in general accepts the concepts of separation of religion and state, and such separation does not exist. The authorities permitted the attendance of diplomats throughout the trial, which began in January, but closed the trial to journalists and the broader public, failed to provide information on the proceedings and thereby prevented independent monitoring. Saad Al-Jabri was a close ally and advisor of the former crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Muhammad bin Nayef. [62] Furthermore, that year three women were named as deputy chairpersons of three committees. "All the drivers, and their husbands, were barred from foreign travel for a year. [171], The Saudi authorities announced in May 2019, the decision to extend the jailterm for a cleric, Sheikh Mohammad bin Hassan al-Habib, known for challenging the systematic discrimination of Shia minorities in Saudi Arabia. [106], Every summer, the Saudi Ministry of Labor and Social Development enforce a 3-months midday outdoor work ban. leave shelters for those who had experienced domestic abuse. No individual shall be detained, imprisoned or have his actions restricted except under the provisions of the law. In 1988 fatwas passed by the country's leading cleric, Abdul-Aziz ibn Baz denounced the Shias as apostates. The authorities used the death penalty extensively, carrying out scores of executions for a range of crimes, including drug offences. [1] Amnesty International received no response. No response was reported. [213] In the previous September, Khashoggi had fled Saudi Arabia after the arrests of other Saudi intellectuals, clerics and activists, fearing that he too would be arrested or banned from travelling. Recently created human rights organisations include Human Rights First Society (2002),[240] Association for the Protection and Defense of Women's Rights in Saudi Arabia (2007),[241] Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association (2009)[243][244] and the government-associated National Society for Human Rights (2004). In 2014, Saudi blogger Raif Badawi's sentence was increased to 1,000 lashes and ten years' imprisonment after he was accused of apostasy in 2012. [201], In September 2018, the Right Livelihood Award awarded three jailed Saudi human rights activists with the "alternative Nobel prize" award. In the eastern city of Dammam where three quarters of the 400,000 residents are Shia, there are no Shia mosques or prayer halls, no Shia call to prayer broadcast on TV, and no cemeteries for Shia. [231], Allegedly Khashoggi was not the only dissident on Saudi's list to be abducted. 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[76] On October 26, 2013, a group of women started a movement to defy the ban by driving themselves. In October 2015, UK pensioner and cancer victim Karl Andree, then 74, faced 360 lashes for home brewing alcohol.   |   Pakistani columnist Mohammad Taqi has written that "the Saudi regime is also acutely aware that, in the final analysis, the Shiite grievances ... stem from socioeconomic deprivation, as a result of religious repression and political marginalization bordering on apartheid. [258][259] In 2008, the Shura Council ratified the Arab Charter on Human Rights. [236], The Committee for the Defense of Human Rights in the Arabian Peninsula is a Saudi Arabian human rights organization based in Beirut since 1992. [134] Between February 20 and 24, 2009, Shia pilgrims from the heavily Shia Eastern Province who had come to Medina for the anniversary of the prophet Muhammad's death clashed with Sunni religious police at the Baqi' cemetery over doctrinal differences concerning the rituals surrounding commemoration of the dead. [2] The court sessions were closed and diplomats and journalists were banned from attending. Since May 2017[147][148][149][150][151] in response to protests against the government, the predominantly Shia town of Al-Awamiyah has been put under full siege by the Saudi military. On January 18, 2017, he was sentenced to seven years in prison and a seven-year travel ban; he has also not been permitted to call his family or receive visits. [41], Saudi Arabia is a notable destination country for men and women trafficked for the purposes of slave labour and commercial sexual exploitation. Article 42 [Asylum, Extradition] The state shall grant the right to political asylum when the public interest demands this. According to the report, the government has been trying to silence people expressing dissenting views regarding religion, politics, and human rights. Permissions The rights group also urged the racers to speak out against the country’s regime. Religious cleric Salman al-Awda, who had been arbitrarily detained since September 2017, remained at risk of the death penalty after the public prosecution called for his execution on charges related to, among other things, his alleged affiliation to the Muslim Brotherhood and his calls for government reforms and regime change in Arab countries. [160], During the crackdown the Saudi government demolished several historical sites and many other buildings and houses in Qatif. [208], About 1,200 people fled Saudi Arabia and sought asylum in other countries in 2017, including many women fleeing forced marriages or abusive male family members. The lashes are due to be administered every Friday for 20 weeks, 50 lashes at a time, but have not continued past the first flogging. The documents would enable the recipients to work and access education and health care. [15][16][17][18][19], According to Amnesty International, security forces continued to torture and ill- treat detainees to extract confessions to be used as evidence against them at trial. [141], Human Rights Watch reports that Shiites want to be treated as equals and desire to be free from discrimination (Human Rights Watch). [111] Interior Ministry regulations also defined "calling for atheist thought in any form, or calling into question the fundamentals of the Islamic religion on which this country is based" as terrorism.[111]. [210] In 2016, three women and seven children who fled to Lebanon were arrested by Lebanese police and returned to Saudi Arabia minutes after using a bank card. Political parties are banned, but some political dissidents were freed in the 1990s on the condition that they disband their political parties. [54] Local and international women's groups are also pushing governments to respond, taking advantage of the fact that some rulers are eager to project a more progressive image to the West. [5] In the 2000s, it was reported that women were sentenced to lashes for adultery; the women were actually victims of rape, but because they could not prove who the perpetrators were, they were deemed guilty of committing adultery. Qahtani, who was under investigation earlier, was released with no evidence found against him. [291], Segregation in countries by type (in some countries, categories overlap), Capital punishment; right to representation, Guardianship system, segregation, and restrictions, Extraterritorial harassment, forced repatriation, and killing, Al-Sharq Al-Awsat (London), July 23, 2006, translated at, Al-Watan (Saudi Arabia), May 18, 2006 translated at, Al-Watan (Saudi Arabia), June 26, 2006 translated at, 2006 Saudi Arabia's Curriculum of Intolerance, Report by Center for Religious Freedom of Freedom House. Those who remained at risk of execution at the end of the year included other individuals who were under the age of 18 at the time of their alleged offence. The lashes were due to take place over 20 weeks. Regarded on a par with terrorists, atheists in Saudi Arabia suffer imprisonment, marginalisation, slander, ostracisation and even execution. Torture is used as a punishment. [241], The Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association (ACPRA) was created in 2009. [30] The death penalty can be imposed for a wide range of offenses,[31] including murder, rape, armed robbery, repeated drug use, apostasy,[32] adultery,[33] witchcraft and sorcery[34] and can be carried out by beheading with a sword,[32] stoning or firing squad,[33] followed by crucifixion. Women do not need male permission to apply for the card, but do need it to travel abroad. They had been convicted in various trials before the SCC. Before the 1970s, anybody who was born in Saudi Arabia had the right for a citizenship. Saudi authorities – in some cases with the help of citizens – rounded up many illegal workers and physically abused them. [2] Qorvis MSLGroup, a U.S. subsidiary of Publicis Groupe, has been working with Saudi Arabia amidst its executions of political protesters and opponents for more than a decade to whitewash its record of human rights abuses. Chapter 3: Features of the Saudi family. [186] He was released on April 26, 2008. In April 2011, during the 2011–2012 Saudi Arabian protests, the kingdom made it a crime to publish any criticism harming the reputation of government or religious leaders, or which harms the interests of the state. The case was internationally condemned and put a considerable amount of pressure on the Saudi legal system. 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The government of Saudi Arabia arrested a few intellectuals, businessmen and activists last year for the same reason. They are the most vicious enemy of Muslims, who should be wary of their plots. Men and women from Central Asia, the Middle East, and Africa, and many other countries voluntarily travel to Saudi Arabia as domestic servants or other low-skilled labourers, but some subsequently face conditions indicative of involuntary servitude. The documents would enable the recipients to work and access education and health care. The authorities routinely failed to warn families of their relatives’ imminent execution or inform them immediately after the executions. In November, the authorities arbitrarily detained at least 10 men and women, including entrepreneurs, writers and intellectuals, for a week. They harassed, arbitrarily detained and prosecuted dozens of government critics, human rights defenders, including women’s rights activists, members of the Shi’a minority and family members of activists. [194], In July 2015, Waleed Abulkhair, a prominent human rights lawyer, founder of Monitor of Human Rights in Saudi Arabia and recipient of 2012 of the Palm prize for human rights, was sentenced to 15 years of prison by a special criminal court in Riyadh for vague offences such as "setting up an unlicensed organization. Refunds of donations. Citizens' rights in Saudi Arabia can be described as follows: The ruler of the country is a hereditary king and people have no role in electing their rulers. [112] "[216] Three weeks after Khashoggi went missing, Saudi authorities acknowledged that he had been killed at the consulate and that his body was removed from the consulate. [125] Proselytizing by non-Muslims, including the distribution of non-Muslim religious materials such as Bibles, is illegal in Saudi Arabia. [214][215] On 3 October, a Saudi official claimed that Khashoggi had been neither detained nor killed, saying "He is not in the consulate nor in Saudi custody." Apartheid, Saudi Style, New York Post, May 22, 2003. [288], Global coalition of human rights groups sent a letter to the mayors of Berlin, London, New York, Paris, Rome, Los Angeles and Madrid urging to boycott a G20 urban summit to be hosted by Saudi Arabia on 2 October, on the grounds of human rights activists’ imprisonment and torture, human rights abuse and the 2018 assassination of The Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Residents are not allowed to enter or leave, and military indiscriminately shells the neighborhoods with airstrikes, mortar[152] and artillery[153] fire along with snipers[154] shooting residents. Residents of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia shall abide by its laws and shall observe the values of Saudi society and respect its traditions and feelings. [50] Implementation of a government resolution supporting expanded employment opportunities for women met resistance from within the labor ministry,[51] from the religious police,[52] and from the male citizenry. Here are ten ways Saudi Arabia is violating its citizens’ human rights: 1. "[77] Many could not afford chauffeurs, and the few buses that do operate in cities and towns across the Kingdom do not follow a set schedule. [238][239], The Human Rights First Society applied unsuccessfully for a governmental licence in 2002, but was allowed to function informally. Saudi Arabia has no Shia cabinet ministers, mayors or police chiefs, according to another source, Vali Nasr, unlike other countries with sizable Shia populations (such as Iraq and Lebanon). Saudi Arabia is among those countries which have the best regards for its people. While the reforms brought the recognition of women’s rights in these areas into line with those of men and also eased major restrictions on women’s freedom of movement, they did not abolish the guardianship system. This demolition came from a siege of the city by the Saudi government, as it continued to try to prevent the citizens of the city from gaining their rights. [203] The same year, British media group, The Guardian, claimed that it was being targeted by a cybersecurity unit in Saudi Arabia. [218], On 28 April 2020, the Saudi government introduced criminal justice changes to limit the flogging and death penalty of children accused of terrorism, according to Human Rights Watch. [119], As an Islamic state, Saudi Arabia gives preferential treatment for Muslims. [243][244] Al-Bejadi was charged in the Specialized Criminal Court in August 2011 for "insurrection against the ruler, instigating demonstrations, and speaking with foreign [media] channels. [209] Students studying abroad have been threatened with termination of scholarships in response to criticism of the Saudi government on social media. Saudi Arabia remained a member of the coalition imposing economic and political sanctions on Qatar, along with Bahrain, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Amnesty International has urged the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to release the women rights defenders in detention for the past two years. Saudi Arabia abstained from the United Nations vote adopting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, saying it contradicted sharia law. He remained on trial on the new charges at the end of 2019. Efforts at normalisation between those who believe and those who don′t remain bleak. Saudi Arabia has always been criticized for its human rights record, but two developments over the last decade have caused a steeper slide into … In September, a drone attack for which Yemen’s Huthis claimed responsibility targeted facilities of the state-owned oil company Aramco in Abqaiq, Eastern Province and cut Saudi Arabia’s oil production by about half for several weeks. Because anti-Shia attitudes are engrained from an early age, they are passed down from generation to generation. [193] He has since been freed. Residents also reported soldiers shooting at homes, cars and everyone in streets. [174], Among the people executed in Saudi for magic and sorcery (and often other charges) are Egyptian pharmacist Mustafa Ibrahim (beheaded in 2007 in Riyadh), Muree bin Ali bin Issa al-Asiri (found in possession of talismans, and executed in Najran province in June 2012), Amina bin Salem Nasser[175] (executed in December 2011 in Jawf), and Abdul Hamid Bin Hussain Bin Moustafa al-Fakki (a Sudanese migrant worker executed in a car park in Medina on September 20, 2011). The authorities did not permit the formation of political parties, trade unions or independent human rights groups, and continued to prosecute and imprison those who set up or participated in unlicensed human rights organizations. There is no "true citizen" in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia grooms citizens to replace expats in private sector. The World Economic Forum in its Global Gender Gap Report 2018 ranked Saudi Arabia 141 out of 149 countries on gender equality. 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