- Biological Warfare: US & Saudis Use Cholera to Kill Yemenis
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
The US has supported Saudi Arabia and its allies in their aggression against Yemen, committing daily war crimes involving civilians, who are now suffering a cholera epidemic with more than 400,000 victims.
- Chasing a Mirage
The Tragic Illusion of an Islamic State
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2008
According to Tarek Fatah, "Morality is doing what is right, regardless what we are told; Religious dogma is doing what we are told, no matter what is right." Fatah argues that since Islam's advent, there have been two parallel strains of the religion that are in clash. The first "state of Islam" is a person's moral compass; the way Islam governs an individual's personal life. By contrast, the yearning for "an Islamic state" has been bloody and fruitless.
- CIA awards Saudi prince medal for anti-terror efforts
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, Saudi Arabia's deputy premier and interior minister, has been presented with a CIA award for his work fighting terrorism.
- Concern about blogger's condition after second flogging postponed
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders is relieved that the Saudi authorities have postponed blogger Raif Badawiâ's second session of 50 lashes on medical grounds but is very concerned about his health and urges the authorities to abandon this barbaric punishment altogether.
- Connexions Library: Middle East Focus
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on the Middle East.
- Conundrum - Syriza, Democracy And The Death Of A Saudi Tyrant
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
It's always a tricky moment for the corporate media when a foreign leader dies. The content and tone need to be appropriate, moulded to whether that leader fell into line with Western policies or not.
- Embassy Row Online
Resource Type: Website
Contact names and numbers for all embassies to Canada and all Canadian embassies abroad.
- Ethiopian Migrants Victimized in Saudi Arabia
Racism and Hate Running Through the Streets
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The recent appalling events in Saudi Arabia have brought thousands of impassioned Ethiopians living inside the country and overseas onto the streets. This powerful worldwide action presents a tremendous opportunity for the people to unite, to demand their rights through peaceful demonstrations and to call with one voice for change.
- Ethiopian workers 'beaten and robbed' by Saudi police
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
A group of undocumented Ethiopians told The Associated Press news agency that after being captured by Saudi police officers they were subject to serious abuses, including beatings and filthy prison conditions as well as witnessing shootings during roundups.
- How Canada could use the Saudi quarrel to help the Middle East - and itself
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
Saudi Arabia's overreaction to Canadian criticism on human rights provides an opportunity for Canada to rethink Middle East policy. Such a policy, based on universal human rights, would greatly benefit not just Saudi Arabians but those in the broader Middle East, and also Canada.
- Human rights defender held in Saudi Arabia since mid-June on charge of 'annoying others'
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Reporters Without Borders calls for the immediate and unconditional release of Sheikh Mekhlef bin Dahham al-Shammari, a writer, human rights activist and social reformer who was arrested in Saudi Arabia on 15 June.
- IFJ Welcomes Saudi Withdrawal on Decision to Flog Female Journalist
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today welcomed the decision of King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz decision to cancel a Saudi Court sentence ordering a female journalist to receive 60 lashes over a controversial sex broadcast.
- Invisible War Crimes - The Corporate Media On Yemen
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Anyone struggling to understand the violent upheaval in Yemen this year might be tempted to consult the country's 'most important source of news' -- the BBC.
- Jailed and on trial for reporting human rights violations in Saudi Arabia
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Waleed Abu Al-Khair, a human rights lawyer who has been held since April, is being tried on a range of charges that include “preparing, storing and transmitting information that undermines public order” and violating Saudi Arabia’s cyber-crime
- Join Canadian Voice of Women for Peace’s call for Ottawa to suspend arms sales to Saudi Arabia
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Canadian Voice of Women for Peace calls on the Canadian government to: Suspend arms sales and transfers to Saudi Arabia, including armoured vehicles, weapons, munitions, military equipment or technology (or logistical and financial support for
- The Land Grabbers
The New Fight over Who Owns the Earth
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2012
How Wall Street, Chinese billionaires, oil sheikhs, and agribusiness are buying up huge tracts of land in a hungry, crowded world.
- Leaders urged to intercede on behalf of Saudi blogger
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders calls on the international community to maintain pressure on the Saudi authorities, who alone have the power to overturn the inhumane sentence passed on Saudi blogger Raif Badawi.
- Leading news website blocked in 3 Arab countries
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has expressed its deep concerns today following the blocking of news web site al-Araby al-Jadeed and its English counterpart The New Arab, in Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Egypt.
- Long jail terms for three bloggers
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Reporters Without Borders is appalled by the long jail terms that three Saudi cyber-activists received this week. Blogger and human rights activist Raef Badawi's sentence for 'insulting Islam'; was increased by a Jeddah criminal court on appeal
- Mali, Wahabis, and Saudis
Following the Money
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The impact of the Wahabi movement in Mali.
- Migrant Workers in Saudi Arabia
Killed Beaten Raped
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
With few opportunities at home, millions of poor, desperate men and women from South East Asia and the horn of Africa migrate annually to Saudi Arabia. Vulnerable at home and vulnerable abroad where many are enslaved and badly abused, some killed.
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Terrorism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
An in-depth look at the nature of terrorism that discusses questioning terrorism, assessing it, the difference between state terrorism and group terrorism, morality and history, and war and politics.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 8, 2015
Elections
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2015
Elections are the topic of the week, with items related to the October 19 Canadian federal election, and also to broader issues of parliamentary democracy, voting and whether voting can bring about change, and the neo-liberal attack on democracy. Articles look at the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, the financial takeovers of Ukraine and Greece, and debt bondage. Also: a discussion of James Hansen's fossil fuel exit strategy, and a critique of Alinsky-style organizing.
- Palestine Peace Not Apartheid
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
Former U.S. President Carter calls Israel's treatment of Palestinians 'apartheid' and identifies continuing Israeli control of the occupied territories as the primary obstacle to peace.
- Press for Conversion #51
May 2003
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2003
Why is the U.S. government reviled by so many people in the Middle East and North Africa? This issue looks at the past 50 years of wars and regime changes in the region and unveils a consistent pattern of U.S. involvement.
- Protests, Prosecution And Punishment In Saudi Arabia
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Saudi Arabia is experiencing protests, prosecution and punishments.
- RSF decries Saudi citizen-journalist's jail term and writing ban
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the four-year jail sentence and 15-year writing ban that a Saudi court passed yesterday on writer and citizen-journalist Zuhair Kutbi as "unjust and disproportionate."
- Saudi Arabia: Imprisoned editor Raef Badawi to be flogged 1,000 times
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
According to PEN’s Information, Raef Badawi, who was sentenced by a Saudi Arabian court to 10 years in prison, 1,000 lashes , a fine, a 10-year travel ban and 10-year media participation ban for “insulting Islam” and “founding a liberal website”, will be flogged 1,000 times in November 2014.
- Saudi Arabia's foreign labour crackdown drives out 2m migrants
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Ethiopian workers face hostility amid 'Saudisation' campaign to control foreign labour and get more Saudi citizens into work.
- Saudi Arabia's Yemen Strategy: Divide and Destroy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
While eleven weeks of airstrikes and a punitive naval blockade have laid waste to much of Yemen, most people remain resolute and what is a distinctly Yemeni sense of humour is intact. This is despite the fact that more than 2000 people have been killed, over half of whom are civilians, and billions of dollars of infrastructure have been destroyed since the Saudi led "Operation Decisive Storm" began on March 25, 2015.
- Saudi journalist detained over outspoken newspaper columns
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Reporters Without Borders condemns the detention of Tariq al-Mubarak, a blogger and columnist who writes for the London-based Saudi newspaper Asharq al-Awsat. He has been held by the Criminal Investigation Department for the past four days.
- Saudi king urged to pardon blogger on third anniversary of arrest
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
On the third anniversary of Raif Badawi's arrest, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) reiterates its call to Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz to demonstrate clemency and pardon this young blogger.
- Saudi Royal Family: Protecting VIPs, While Letting Ordinary Pilgrims Die
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
In the wake of a stampede in Mecca which killed close to 1,000 Haj pilgrims, it is being reported that the columns of pilgrims ran into each other because Saudi police had closed off key roads in the vicinity so as to accommodate VIPs who are whisked through without having to mingle with the masses.
- Saudi Warplanes Destroy MSF Hospital in Yemen
At Least Two Staff Hurt in Attacks
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Adding to concerns about Saudi attacks on civilians in Yemen, an overnight air raid against the capital city of Sanaa pounded a residential district, hitting several homes, a girl's school, and destroying a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital. MSF reported the facility was struck multiple times and left in "wreckage."
- Saudi Warplanes Destroy MSF Hospital in Yemen
At Least Two Staff Hurt in Attacks
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Adding to concerns about Saudi attacks on civilians in Yemen, an overnight air raid against the capital city of Sanaa pounded a residential district, hitting several homes, a girl's school, and destroying a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital. MSF reported the facility was struck multiple times and left in "wreckage."
- 7 shocking facts about Saudi Arabia under ‘modernizing’ reign of King Abdullah
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Taken aback by the fulsome praise the recently deceased King Abdullah has garnered from world leaders, RT has decided to assess whether his record stands up to scrutiny.
- Sudanese journalist held without charge in Saudi Arabia, fears extradition
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders has learned that Walid Eldoud Elmakki Elhussein, a Sudanese journalist resident in Saudi Arabia since 2000, has been held without charge for the past six weeks and, according to his family, could be extradited to Sudan.
- Suspend the $15-billion sale of LAV IIIs to Saudi Arabia and sign the Arms Treaty (ATT)
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
The Canadian Voice of Women for Peace is deeply concerned that the newly- elected Canadian government seems intent on completing the $15-billion sale of Canadian-made LAV III vehicles to Saudi Arabia initiated by the former government.
- Ten Reasons to Oppose the Saudi Monarchy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
During the discussion on the Iran nuclear deal, it has been strange to hear US politicians fiercely condemn Iranian human rights abuses while remaining silent about worse abuses by US ally Saudi Arabia. Not only is the Saudi regime repressive at home and abroad, but US weapons and US support for the regime make Americans complicit. So let's look at the regime the US government counts as its close friend.
- Towards a New Cold War
Essays on the Current Crisis and How We Got There
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1982
A sobering assessment of American foreign policy from the end of the Vietnam era to Ronald Reagan.
- Trump's Amoral Saudi Statement Is a Pure Expression of Decades-Old 'U.S. Values' and Foreign Policy Orthodoxies
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
Donald Trump's statement that the US would continue business and diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia after the murder of Jamal Khashoggi may be blunter than people are used to but it is standard operating procedure of American policy.
- Will the Iran Deal Hold?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Finkel explores the underlying reasons behind Israel and Saudi Arabia's disapproval over the United States' nuclear weapon deal with Iran.
- Yemen as Laboratory: Why is the West So Silent About This Savage War?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
What is at stake in Yemen that far more systematic violations of the Geneva Conventions than in any of the recent wars which Western powers have supported in the Arab world (Iraq, Syria, Libya and Gaza) are met with resounding silence? For six months there has been a blockade of food and fuel, and management of aid (even that through the UN) as part of war strategy, bombing of civilian, historical, educational, religious and medical targets, destruction of infrastructure from roads to electricity and water, and use of prohibited weapons.
- Yemen: journalist killed in an air raid by the Saudi-led coalition
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Yemeni journalist Almigdad Mojalli was killed on 17 January in an air raid by the Saudi-led coalition in the capital, Sana'a, according to news reports.
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