The Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) has spent billions of dollars hosting major entertainment, cultural, and sporting events as a deliberate strategy to deflect from the country’s image as a pervasive human rights violator. However...
Saudi Arabia has been better known of late for serious human rights violations than sports spectacles. Yet the country is hosting the heavyweight world title boxing rematch between Tyson Fury and the winner of Anthony Joshua against Oleksandr Usyk...
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the kingdom’s de facto ruler, appears to be further tightening his grip on power following another wave of detentions against human rights and online activists. Since he outmanoeuvred more senior...
Twitter has allowed a senior Saudi official and aide to Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) to maintain a verified account with more than 2m followers, despite allegations that the official recruited and paid Twitter employees to secretly report on...
The Saudi woman who was sentenced to 34 years in prison for a tweet appears to have been denounced to Saudi authorities through a crime-reporting app that users in the kingdom can download to Apple and Android phones, the Guardian has revealed. A...
Saudi Arabia’s annual inflation rate accelerated to a 13-month high of 2.7 percent in July, up from 2.3 percent in June, according to recent data released by the General Authority for Statistics. The Kingdom’s Consumer Price Index exceeded...