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• US rights team visits Saudi Arabia

  - 2006-12-04

  RIYADH AFP — A team from US-based Human Rights Watch is visiting Saudi Arabia and will meet with rights activists after touring a prison housing suspected militants, activists and press reports said. Although the New York-based watchdog was first allowed to visit the kingdom in January 2003, the current delegation...

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• Saudi minister tells Rice to mind her own business

  - 2005-06-29

  RIYADH AFP — US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has no right to speak about the case of three jailed activists whose cause she took up during a recent visit here, Saudi Interior Minister Nayef ben Abdel Aziz said. "It's an internal matter, nobody has the right to speak...

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• Rice criticises Saudi regime over jailed activists

  - 2005-06-20

  RIYADH AFP — US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in Saudi Arabia on the latest leg of a regional tour to promote democracy, after criticising the authorities for jailing political activists. In a speech in Cairo, Rice praised Saudi Arabia's "brave citizens" who are "demanding accountable government," and...

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• US "troubled" by sentencing of Saudi reformers

  - 2005-05-18

  WASHINGTON AFP — The United States is "troubled" by the jail terms handed down to three Saudi political activists which run counter to Riyadh's commitment to reform and rule of law, an official said. Rhonda Shore, spokesperson for the State Department's Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, said the US...

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• Riyadh court accuses three Saudis of calling for constitutional monarchy

  - 2004-08-09

  RIYADH AFP ? Three Saudi reformists were formally accused by a court of calling for the kingdom to become a constitutional monarchy and questioning the independence of its judicial system. Ali al-Demaini, Matruk al-Faleh and Abdullah al-Hamed "took up issuing statements and collecting as many signatures as possible on...

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• Three Saudi reformists detained for seven weeks may be freed shortly

  - 2004-05-05

  RIYADH AFP ? Three Saudi reformists who have been in detention for seven weeks are likely to be freed soon after reaching a mutually acceptable solution with the authorities, a source close to the trio said. "There are indications that Ali al-Demaini, Matruk al-Faleh and Abdullah al-Hamed will be...

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• Prominent Saudi reformist lawyer released

  - 2004-03-30

  RIYADH AFP ? Prominent Saudi liberal lawyer Mohammed Saeed Tayyeb was released after two weeks in detention, his wife told AFP from the Red Sea city of Jeddah. "He was released and came home," Faeka Badr said. Tayyeb was not immediately available for comment. His release came a...

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• Powell, Saudis try to ease tensions over reformists' arrest, say ties strong

  - 2004-03-19

  RIYADH AFP ? US Secretary of State Colin Powell said he had raised concerns over the arrest of pro-reform activists in talks with Saudi leaders but stressed that relations with Riyadh remain strong. At a joint news conference with Saudi counterpart Prince Saud al-Faisal, Powell, who also met Crown...

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