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Promoting Human Rights

May 8th, 2008 · No Comments · Middle East, Saudi Arabia

Article published Mar 7, 2008 By Nir Boms An important, yet underreported, summit took place recently in Riyadh. Turki K. Al Sudairy, a Saudi minister and president of the Saudi Supreme Human Rights Commission and Pakistan’s federal minister for human rights, Ansar Burney, conducted a series of high level meetings to discuss human rights in [...]

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Saudi Arabia: An “Ally” We Could Do Without

May 8th, 2008 · No Comments · Middle East, Saudi Arabia

By Nir Boms FrontPageMagazine.com | December 10, 2004 “Fighting the occupiers is a duty for all those who are able,” reads an open letter to the Iraqi people currently posted on the Internet. Issued by more than two dozen Saudi scholars and preachers on November 6, the letter calls on Iraqis to fight coalition forces [...]

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