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Ashraf Fayadh. FREE AT LAST!
ALQST for Human Rights in Saudi Arabia reported last Tuesday, 23 August 2022, that the Saudi authorities have finally released Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh, imprisoned now for more than eight years for the religious crime of “apostasy”
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CRACKS IN THE SKIN – Ashraf Fayadh THE POET IN PRISON
Cracks in the skin, a poem written by Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh from a Saudi Arabian jail
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Saudi Arabia: Elected to the UN Commission on the Status of Women
On April 19 last, United Nations member states elected Saudi Arabia to serve on the UN Commission on the Status of Women, a body “dedicated to the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women.”
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Ashraf Fayadh, poet… NOT FORGOTTEN
Ashraf Fayadh, imprisoned stateless-Palestinian poet, is this year’s joint winner (with Malini Subramaniam, an award-winning Indian investigative journalist) of Pen International’s 2017 Oxfam Novib/PEN Awards for Freedom of Expression
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U.S. Relies Heavily on Saudi Money to Support Syrian Rebels
When President Obama secretly authorized the Central Intelligence Agency to begin arming Syria’s embattled rebels in 2013, the spy agency knew it would have a willing partner to help pay for the covert operation: Saudi Arabia
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Saudi Arabia and the prequel of the endless War
Where there is oil there is wealth. Where there is wealth there is corruptive power. Where there are oil and weapons, the situation becomes incandescent: Saudi Arabia is the fourth country in the world for military spending, over $ 80 billion in 2014
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Saudi Arabia, Militarism and New Conflicts
Recently Saudi Arabia staged its largest-ever military exercises codenamed “Abdullah’s Shield”
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