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A retired teacher in Saudi Arabia a death sentence for his tweets criticizing the country's leadership to just a handful of followers, according to rights advocates and his family.

Training given despite growing concern over scale of human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia

Hundreds of Ethiopian migrants have been killed by Saudi border guards in what may constitute a crime against humanity, a leading human rights group has claimed.

The kingdom has refuted a report that alleged possible crimes against humanity at the country’s southern borders.

Saudi border guards reportedly "fired like rain" on Ethiopian migrants trying to cross through Yemen into the Gulf kingdom, killing hundreds since last year, according to an NGO report.

‘They fired on us like rain. When I remember, I cry,’ says a young Ethiopian woman

Border guards in Saudi Arabia fired machine guns and launched mortars at Ethiopians trying to cross into the kingdom from Yemen, likely killing hundreds of the unarmed migrants in recent years, Human Rights Watch said in a report released Monday.

Between March 2022 and June 2023, Saudi border guards killed hundreds of Ethiopian migrants attempting to cross the border from Yemen into the oil-rich kingdom, according to a new Human Rights Watch report released on Monday. The report comes as Saudi Arabia implements an anti-migrant policy at home and a…

Report by Human Rights Watch details alleged attacks using explosive weapons and small arms on Saudi Arabia-Yemen border