The Blacklist: Saudi Arabia’s High-profile Political Detainees 28/02/2018 Samah Hadid, the deputy director of Amnesty International, said that most human rights activists in the country were either in prison or on trial, their whereabouts still undisclosed. The others, she added, risk arrest at any time. MBS is clearly remaking Saudi Arabia in his image, while proving to be just as authoritarian as the rulers before him. Tags: alQaeda - AlSaud - Alwaleed bin Talal - amnestyinternational - blockade of Qatar - corruption - HumanRights - MBS - MiddleEast - Mohammed bin Salman - Osama bin Laden - Ritz Carlton hotel - Saudi Government - Saudi Royal Family - SaudiArabia - Terrorism - Vision2030 - war in Yemen
Saudi Arabia’s Lofty Education Goals Have Yet to Bear Fruit 02/01/2018 However, investing in the infrastructure alone will not free Saudi society from the shackles of a medieval mindset that governs all aspects of life: the relationship between the ruler and those ruled, between men and women and between native and migrant labour. Scientific thinking needs a socially and intellectually fertile environment to flourish. That environment has yet to emerge in Saudi Arabia. Tags: AlSaud - House of Saud - Human Rights Watch - Islam - King Abdullah - MBS - MiddleEast - Mohammed bin Salman - Saudi economy - Saudi unemployment - SaudiArabia - Terrorism - UNESCO - USA - Vision2030