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Saudi Pressures Mount Against Activists over Women Driving Ban
May 21, 2018
With Saudi Arabia’s driving ban on women slated to be lifted on June 24, rights activists report a sharp uptick in arrests and other intimidation tactics against public supporters of the reform by the conservative social strata who have long supported second-class for women in the Islamist theocratic kingdom.
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OIC Calls for UN Protection Force for Palestinians in Gaza
May 21, 2018
An emergency summit of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) convened in Istanbul called on the UN Security Council and General Assembly to address Israel's response to Palestinian protests at the Gaza border and the relocation of the US Embassy to Jerusalem by establishing an "international protection force" for the Palestinians.
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Cyber-Jihadists Intensify Activism in Run-up to Indonesian Election
May 21, 2018
Cyber-jihadists associated with two Islamist groups, Saracen and Muslim Cyber Army, are using Facebook and other social media platforms to target and "destroy the religious blasphemers and the government" in the lead-up to regional and national elections in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country.
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China Uses "Home Stays" with Officials to Monitor Muslims
May 18, 2018
CNN reports that the Chinese government is using a program of political indoctrination, local surveillance, and forced ethnic assimilation to address concerns about the radicalization of the country's sizable Uighur Muslim population concentrated in western China, sending over a million ethnic Han Chinese Communist officials to live with suspected radicals in forced "home stays."
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Saudi Arabia Receives Guantanamo Prisoner in Rehab Center
May 18, 2018
The US Defense Department has confirmed its transfer of a convicted al-Qaeda operative from Guantanamo Bay to Saudi Arabia for participation in a rehabilitation program aimed at deradicalization and social reintegration of Islamist extremists, marking the first detainee transferred under the Trump Administration.
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