SANA’A: Yemen security sources at the port of Hodaida, west of the capital, Sana’a, revealed to Bikyamasr.com that following reports from the Yemeni Intelligence Services, the country’s seaport authorities had intercepted an Iranian ship loaded with weapons they believed was to be delivered to the al-Houthis fighters. Al-Houthis, a group of Shia dissidents, who for [...]
DUBAI: Saudi Arabian journalist Hamza Kashgari is to face an apostasy trial for comments he made on his personal Twitter account, which Saudi officials say are insulting to the Prophet Mohamed. On Monday, Human Rights Watch (HRW) called for Kashgari’s immediate release and for Riyadh to drop any charges against him based on what he [...]
DUBAI: Malaysia on Sunday deported Saudi journalist Hamza Kashgari accused of posting online comments allegedly insulting to Islam and the Prophet Mohammed. Malaysia’s Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said Kashgari would be repatriated to face the charges. “Malaysia has a long-standing arrangement (with Saudi Arabia) by which individuals wanted by one country are extradited when detained [...]
Istanbul (dpa) – Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz plans to fly to Saudi Arabia on Saturday for meetings with Saudi Petroleum Ali Ibrahim Al-Naimi, Turkey’s Energy Ministry announced Friday. Turkish officials were unavailable to confirm the reason for the visit, but it comes as Turkey is under serious pressure from the United States and the [...]
DUBAI: Leading human rights organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on the Malaysian government to not deport a Saudi journalist accused of insulting Islam on his personal Twitter account. The New York-based Human Rights Watch said Hamza Kashgari, 23, a Jeddah-based newspaper columnist, would face almost certain conviction and a death sentence for apostasy [...]
SANA’A: Yemen officials confirmed on Friday that three Saudi Arabia nationals had been kidnapped by al-Houthis fighters while crossing the Yemeni northern province of al-Jawf, which sits on the Yemeni-Saudi border. The province, which has been under the control of Salafists, a group of Sunni ultra-conservatives, has slowly come under the control of the Shia [...]
CAIRO: A United States congressional watchdog for global religious freedom has urged Saudi Arabia to release 35 Ethiopian Christians who were arrested while conducting a prayer meeting late last year in the ultra-conservative Gulf kingdom. They have been detained an held for more than two months. The bipartisan American Commission on International Religious Freedom demanded [...]
CAIRO: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) condemned on Thursday the death threats and a publishing ban against Saudi Arabian columnist Hamza Kashgari for comments he posted on Twitter addressing the prophet Mohammed. He was arrested in Malaysia on Wednesday over the Twitter writings, and has been accused of insulting Islam and the prophet. Kashgari, [...]
DUBAI: A Saudi Arabian columnist has been arrested in Malaysia after he reportedly made comments on Twitter that insulted Islam and the Prophet Mohamed, police confirmed to Bikyamasr.com on Friday. The international press community has been enraged over the reports of Hamza Kashgari’s arrest, with the Committee to Protect Journalists issuing a statement in condemnation [...]
DUBAI: Huawei, a global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, launched its first intuitive premium range smartphone, Honor U8860 with an Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread operating system, for the Saudi market in Riyadh. Huawei presented the Honor with an exclusive deal with STC, the integrated telecommunication services provider in the Kingdom. This is Huawei’s first [...]
LONDON: Sa’ud Mukhtar Al-Hashimi, 47, was arrested in Saudi Arabia by Saudi secret forces and has been detained since 2 February 2007. He has been a prominent figure of the “reformers” movement which has called for constitutional reform and democratic rights in the country. Over the past five years, he has been physically and psychologically [...]
DUBAI: A Saudi Arabia woman who pressed the government last year after she drove a vehicle in the country has filed a lawsuit against the government for refusing her a driver’s license. Manal al-Sharif, the mastermind behind the Women 2 Drive campaign, sent an email from the organization to Bloomberg news agency detailing her effort [...]
Fujitsu inked a MOU with Saudi Arabia as Part of an Overseas Infrastructure Export Initiative of Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry Fujitsu today announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Saudi Industrial Property Authority (MODON) to commence a collaborative smart communities project in MODON’s industrial areas. With the [...]
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia recently gave $25 million to help combat some of the most devastating diseases in the world. In a release, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria said the country would be handing out the funds fully by 2013. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the money given out [...]
DUBAI: Saudi Arabia is getting excited over the telecom sector’s push toward the 4G LTE network. At Telsa, the only dedicated telecoms and ICT exhibition and conference in the Gulf kingdom, regional experts are hopeful that the 4G introduction into the country will create a boost for the telecom industry. The three-day event in Riyadh [...]
CAIRO: Fashion and Saudi Arabia usually do not go hand in hand, but the ultra-conservative Gulf kingdom reported on Tuesday that their garment industry is continuing to see massive growth. According to Jeddah’s Chamber of Commerce and Industries (JCCI) deputy chairman Mazen Batarji, in a statement to the media, the garment market in the country [...]
SANA’A: Tribal sources in the northern Yemen province of Saada revealed to Bikyamasr.com that Salafists are gathering “Jihadists” as their fight against al-Houthis intensifies. For more than a decade, Sunni radicals, or Salafists, have been battling on and off with a group of Shia rebels who wish to return to the ancestral rule of the [...]
SANA’A: Mujahid al-Qohali, the Yemeni Minister of Expatriate Affairs, announced to the media that after a candid discussion with Saudi officials, the Kingdom had agree to return Yemen its pre-Gulf war privileges. Before President Ali Abdullah Saleh decided to side with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in the first Gulf War, Yemenis were treated by the [...]
CAIRO: Some 35 Ethiopian Christians have been arrested and are awaiting deportation from Saudi Arabia after participating in “illicit mingling,” police in the ultra-conservative Gulf kingdom said of the group, arrested in December. Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported that 29 of those arrested are women and were subjected to “arbitrary body cavity searches” while in [...]
Kabul (dpa) – The Afghan government is planning to meet and talk with Taliban insurgents who have been waging a decade-long war, officials confirmed Monday. The meeting between Afghan government officials and members of armed groups will take place in Saudi Arabia in the coming weeks, a senior government official told dpa on condition of [...]
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