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Afghanistan Grants Amnesty to IS, Taliban Fighters
August 07, 2018
Afghanistan officials are granting amnesty to Islamic State (IS) and Taliban fighters as a means of stabilizing conditions on the ground to give traction to US-backed peace talks between the Islamist Taliban and the government in Kabul.
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Saudi Arabia Moves Against Canada for Critique of Rights Violations
August 07, 2018
The Riyadh government has expelled the Canadian ambassador and has frozen all new Saudi-Canadian business in response to Canadian officials' call for Saudi Arabia to release female rights activists arbitrarily detained for their public criticisms of the human rights violations that continue to be perpetrated in the Islamic theocracy in the name of Wahhabi Sunni theology.
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Interview Reveals Extent of Saudi Involvement in Radicalism
August 06, 2018
The first press interview given by the mother of al-Qaeda founder and 9/11 terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden offers a window into the sweeping global networks of Islamist radicalization and jihadist activities supported by and penetrating the leadership of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Saudi Arabia Arrests Women’s Rights Activists
August 06, 2018
Saudi Arabia’s security apparatus has arrested two prominent female leaders of the rights movement pressing for an end to the country’s male guardianship system that uses fundamentalist Islamist arguments to make the regulation of almost all aspects of women’s domestic and international activities dependent on the permission of male relatives.
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HRW Criticizes Rejection of Challenge Against Indonesian Blasphemy Law
August 06, 2018
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called an Indonesian court’s dismissal of a challenge to the country’s blasphemy law criminalizing deviations from the core tenets of Indonesia’s six officially recognized religions “a blow against religious freedom,” as HRW reports that authorities use the law in a discriminatory manner against vulnerable religious minorities.
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