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Thread dedicated to the human rights abuses of Middle Eastern Countries.

A thread recording Israeli abuses can be found here>
http://lunaticoutpost.com/Topic-Israel-t...k-villages
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Latest Update: Saudi maids get 10 years, 1,000 lashes for sorcery
http://www.emirates247.com/crime/region/...0-1.507147

Bahrain court jails six for Twitter insults
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/mid...sults.html

Kuwaiti opposition leader to appeal jail term over emir insult
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/mid...nsult.html

Saudi Arabian court orders man to be surgically paralysed in 'eye for an eye' punishment
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/...59869.html

Egyptian police killed almost 900 protesters in 2011
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar...eaths-2011

UN Alarmed By Increased Use Of Death Penalty In Iran
http://www.talkradionews.com/united-nati...nalty.html

Bahrain arrests six for defaming ruler on Twitter
http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/1496...on_Twitter

Saudi seven face crucifixion and firing squad for armed robbery
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar...CMP=twt_gu

Saudi Arabia arrests 176 at protest to support prisoners
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-...z2MNuMUGoc

Bahrain activist Zainab al-Khawaja sentenced to jail
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21628074

Qatari poet life sentence reduced to 15 years
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21572072

Teenager dies during pro-democracy protests in Bahrain
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb...st-bahrain

Bahrain Regime Forces Attack Memorial Service for Teenager
http://www.almanar.com.lb/english/adetai...&fromval=1

Yemen failed to probe killing of protesters
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2013/feb/19/ml-yemen/

Teenager dies during pro-democracy protests in Bahrain

Dozens of other people reportedly injured in the violence, some by teargas and others more seriously.

Bahraini security forces have fired teargas, rubber bullets and birdshot at demonstrators hurling rocks and Molotov cocktails in street battles that left one teenager dead and dozens more people injured on the second anniversary of the country's failed pro-democracy uprising.

The main opposition group, al-Wefaq, said 16-year-old Ali Ahmed Ibrahim Aljazeeri died from his injuries about an hour after being shot early in the morning in the village of Diya, near the capital Manama. "He was shot with three rounds from a birdshot gun and died of critical injuries to the upper body and lungs," the group said. "Witnesses confirm he was posing no threat to any police officers at the time."

Dozens of other people were also hurt in the violence, al-Wefaq said, some by teargas and others more seriously.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb...st-bahrain

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Bahrain Regime Forces Attack Memorial Service for Teenager

Bahraini forces attacked on Tuesday a memorial service for a teenage victim, who was shot dead by Al-Khalifa regime last week.

Regime forces fired tear gas and stun grenades to disperse hundreds of people who gathered in the village of Daih to pay tribute to Hussein al-Jaziri.

http://www.almanar.com.lb/english/adetai...&fromval=1

**•REC** · **•REC** 14877 User ID: 14877 02-21-2013 03:14 PM **Posts: 20,380**

Saudi Arabia beheads Pakistani for drug trafficking

Saudi Arabia on Wednesday beheaded by the sword a Pakistani man convicted of drug trafficking, the interior ministry said.

Aqeel Khan Mohammed Riyad was convicted of attempting to smuggle heroin into the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom, the ministry said in a statement carried by state news agency SPA.

His execution brings to 15 the number of people beheaded in Saudi Arabia so far this year.

In 2012, the kingdom executed 76 people, according to an AFP tally based on official figures. The US-based Human Rights Watch put the number at 69.

Rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking are all punishable by death under Saudi Arabia’s strict version of sharia, or Islamic law.

http://dawn.com/2013/02/20/saudi-beheads...afficking/

Outrage over beheading of Sri Lankan woman by Saudi Arabia

A young Sri Lankan woman has been beheaded with a sword in a small, dusty town in Saudi Arabia.

Rizana Nafeek arrived in Saudi Arabia in 2005 and spent her first few weeks in Saudi Arabia working as a housemaid to earn money to support her relatives back home who had been displaced by the massive tsunami in the Indian Ocean the year before.

She then spent the next seven years in Saudi jails as she was accused, charged, convicted and sentenced to death in the killing of her employers' 4-month-old son. Authorities executed her Wednesday in Dawadmi, about 200 kilometers west of the Saudi capital, Riyadh.

The family said she had strangled the boy, Kayed bin Nayef bin Jazyan al-Otaibi, after being asked to bottle-feed him. Nafeek said the infant accidentally choked on milk.

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http://edition.cnn.com/2013/01/10/world/...ankan-maid

**•REC** · **•REC** 14877 User ID: 14877 02-21-2013 03:19 PM **Posts: 20,380**

Yemen failed to probe killing of protesters

An international human rights group has accused Yemen of failing to investigate the 2011 killing of 45 anti-government protesters during the uprising against former President Ali Abdullah Saleh.

Human Rights Watch says in a report released Tuesday that top former officials _ including Saleh's relatives, such as his nephew _ should be held responsible for the slayings.

The New York-based group was referring to the March 18, 2011 incident, when the government unleashed security forces on the demonstrators in the capital, Sanaa.

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2013/feb...z2LXVQUSMS

**•REC** · **•REC** 14877 User ID: 14877 02-22-2013 01:27 PM **Posts: 20,380**

Bahrain's death toll rises to 115 according to unofficial estimate since the outset of the protest movement in February 2011

Protester dies week after head injury during clashes

An opposition official in Bahrain says a 20-year-old protester died from injuries suffered during clashes with security forces.

The death is the second this month blamed on riot police.

Hadi al-Musawi, a spokesman for the Shiite group Al Wefaq, said the protester died early Friday from a head injury sustained Feb. 14 when he was hit with a tear gas canister fired by security forces. Bahraini officials had no immediate comment.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/02/22/...z2Lctc6aTd

**Jessica6** · **Jessica6** Tired... User ID: 151527 02-22-2013 03:45 PM **Posts: 5,137**

Thanks for including the human rights abuses that go on in the other countries in that area as well. The entire region is a mess and has been for a long time.

A lot of those places have a disproportionately large number of young people compared to the West or China so this is bound to continue for a long time...

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 153159 02-22-2013 04:47 PM

Isn't the U.S. cozy with the Bahrain dictatorship? Maybe that is why these fascist crimes are almost never reported in American msm.

**•REC** · **•REC** 14877 User ID: 14877 02-22-2013 04:51 PM **Posts: 20,380**

Jessica6 Wrote:

Thanks for including the human rights abuses that go on in the other countries in that area as well. The entire region is a mess and has been for a long time.

A lot of those places have a disproportionately large number of young people compared to the West or China so this is bound to continue for a long time...

I dont think there is a decent Government in the entire region. Even worse, there is no way to replace them.

**judge judy** lop guest User ID: 148311 02-22-2013 05:01 PM

'Democracy' is just a word. It does not exist.

**•REC** · **•REC** 14877 User ID: 14877 02-25-2013 12:52 PM **Posts: 20,380**

Qatari poet life sentence reduced to 15 years

A Qatari poet sentenced to life in prison for inciting the overthrow of the government and insulting Qatar's rulers has had his jail term cut.

Mohammed al-Ajami's sentence was reduced to 15 years, his lawyer said.

Human rights groups have condemned Mr Ajami's conviction, saying his trial was marred by irregularities, with court sessions held in secret.

The case against Mr Ajami is said to be based on a poem he wrote in 2010 which criticised the Emir, Sheikh Hamad al-Thani.

But activists believe the authorities were angered by a 2011 poem he wrote about authoritarian rule in the region.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21572072

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Bahrain activist Zainab al-Khawaja sentenced to jail

A court in Bahrain has sentenced pro-democracy activist Zainab al-Khawaja to three months in prison.

Ms Khawaja received the sentence after a court of appeal overturned an earlier acquittal.

The state news agency said she was found guilty of "insulting and humiliating a public employee."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21628074

Bahrain: Activists in Hiding as Crisis Continues
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brian-dool...92833.html

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Bahrain jails 7 protesters as rights group claim ‘torture’ of activists

Seven Shia Muslim men, three of whom are minors, have received 10-year jail sentences in Bahrain after being found guilty of attempting to murder police during protests last year. A day earlier, two policemen were acquitted of murdering a protester.

http://rt.com/news/bahrain-court-jail-sentence-610/

Bahrain police acquitted in protester death cases

A court in Bahrain has acquitted two policemen charged in the shooting death of a protester.

The decision on Tuesday came just two days after a court confirmed the acquittal of two other policemen in the deaths of protesters in February 2011.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21601016

**•REC** · **•REC** 14877 User ID: 14877 03-02-2013 02:27 PM **Posts: 20,380**

Saudi Arabia arrests 176 at protest to support prisoners

Saudi police arrested 176 people in the Gulf Arab kingdom’s central Qassim province Friday after a protest calling for fair treatment for security prisoners.

State news agency SPA said that those detained, who included 15 women, had refused to disperse from a sit-in staged outside the investigation and prosecution bureau in the town of Buraida.

SPA news agency quoted a police spokesman in the Qassim region as saying that those detained Friday “refused to respond to instructions and attempts by security personnel for more than 12 hours to get them to end their informal gathering.”

All protests in Saudi Arabia are illegal. The government says it does not mistreat prisoners.

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-...z2MNuuXnJC

**•REC** · **•REC** 14877 User ID: 14877 03-05-2013 08:59 PM **Posts: 20,380**

Saudi seven face crucifixion and firing squad for armed robbery

One of group to be executed, speaking from cell on smuggled phone, says most of ring were juveniles at time of thefts.

One of seven Saudis due to be put to death on Tuesday by crucifixion and firing squad for armed robbery, speaking over a smuggled mobile phone from his prison cell, has appealed for help to stop the executions.

Nasser al-Qahtani told Associated Press from Abha general prison on Monday that he was arrested as part of 23-member ring that stole from jewellery stores in 2004 and 2005. He said they had been tortured to confess and had no access to lawyers.

"I killed no one. I didn't have weapons while robbing the store, but the police tortured me, beat me up and threatened to assault my mother to extract confessions that I had a weapon with me while I was only 15," he said. "We don't deserve death."

A leading human rights group added its appeal to Saudi authorities to stop the executions.

Qahtani, 24, said he and most of the ring were juveniles at the time of the thefts. They were arrested in 2006. The seven received death sentences in 2009, the Saudi newspaper Okaz reported.

Last Saturday, Qahtani said, Saudi King Abdullah ratified the death sentences and sent them to Abha. Authorities set Tuesday for the executions. They also determined the methods.

The main defendant, Sarhan al-Mashayeh, will be crucified for three days. The others will face firing squads.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar...CMP=twt_gu

**•REC** · **•REC** 14877 User ID: 14877 03-13-2013 04:39 PM **Posts: 20,380**

Imagine if you had this law in the United Sates.
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Bahrain arrests six for defaming ruler on Twitter

The public prosecutor's office in Bahrain says six people have been detained for allegedly defaming the country's ruler on Twitter, according to The Associated Press.

The six, who were not identified, join a growing list of anti-government activists caught up in an Internet crackdown by authorities in the Sunni-ruled Gulf nation.

The six were detained over the past couple of days and the prosecutor's statement Wednesday said they will be charged with misusing Twitter and insulting King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa.

http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/1496...on_Twitter