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SAUDI ARABIA

COMMENTARY / World
Jun 27, 2013
Saudi Arabia backsliding on women's rights
The trumped-up case in which two leading Saudi activists for women's rights were sentenced to prison is a symptom of the kingdom's regression on human rights.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 1, 2013
Iranian-American gets jail for Tehran-backed plot to kill Saudi envoy
An Iranian-American used car salesman from Texas who was at the center of a bizarre plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States was sentenced Thursday in federal court in Manhattan to 25 years in prison.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Mar 16, 2013
How can the royal family champion women and endorse Saudi Arabia?
In its latest human rights report, not a great read, the United Kingdom's House of Commons foreign affairs committee wondered if the government attitude to "countries of concern" isn't a wee bit too "low key." Britain's relations with Saudi Arabia, for instance, would benefit from a "bolder" approach,...
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 5, 2011
Japan in a European club?
Hitherto unknown and self-styled "loach" Yoshihiko Noda must learn to swim in an ocean of problems as Japan's new prime minister of the year. He has more than a plateful of domestic issues, but he should also realize, as his predecessors forgot, that Japan needs to re-engage the world if it is to find...

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