February 3rd, 2006 / January 2nd, 2019
Latest Updates of Saudi Arabia
Page with a chronological overview of the country file articles published on the Chronicle website.
Saudi Arabia Hoping Tourism Will Boost Its Foreign Image – and Revenues
As part of the scheme, visitors can apply for a one-year, multiple-entry visa, allowing them to spend up to 90 days in Saudi Arabia, which previously only recognized business and invitation visas. On the new Visit Saudi, website, available in English,...
Women in Saudi Arabia Gain Right to Travel – Does This Mean Equal Rights?
As well as the freedom to travel, the royal decrees also introduced new rights in Saudi Arabia to register marriages, divorces and births and make family documents. There was also reportedly a new concession to allow students to study abroad without a...
The UN Released a Damning Report on Khashoggi's Killing – Will It Make a Difference?
In the report, Agnes Callamard, the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings deduced that Khashoggi had been the victim of a “premeditated extrajudicial execution, for which the State of Saudi Arabia is responsible.” As a non-binding...
The nightclub problem: In Saudi Arabia, youth entertainment is a catch-22
The Saudi ambitions face a well-known reality: the rigidity of a society and authorities raised and existing only for the sake of preserving religion against ‘sin’ or ‘temptation to sin’. Once again, MBS’ ambitions and the apparent opening of Saudi soc...
In Saudi Arabia, No Let-up in Brutal Policies Against Dissenters
Saudi Arabia’s attitude to human rights is particularly ambivalent. On the one hand, Riyadh shows signs of increasing openness. On the other, the authorities regularly demonstrate brutal behaviour, as illustrated by the murder in October 2018 of Saudi j...
Saudi Arabia Reluctant to Abolish Male Guardianship System
State-backed religious clerics have defended the guardianship system, arguing that it is rooted in a Koranic verse. But Saudi Islamic feminists and other religious scholars criticize the interpretation, claiming that nowhere in sharia, Islamic law that...
In Saudi Arabia, Persecution Pushing Up the Number of Runaways
Girls constitute 96 per cent of those fleeing the country. The study, conducted in the Mecca area, shows that the reasons given for running away were: misuse of social media, bad friends, misunderstanding of freedom, copying other cultures, weak beliefs,...
Saudi Arabia Appoints First Female Ambassador
The arrests were a matter of “national security”, said Princess Reema, adding that she did not want to comment further, in part because she knew the families of some of the arrested women. Regarding women’s rights, however, she went on to say, “I actuall...