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Back to homepageAshraf Fayadh’s Death Sentence Repealed; New Ruling Sentences Poet to 8 Years, 800 Lashes
Post Views: 36 The appeal of Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh — who was facing the death penalty in Saudi Arabia — was heard today: The higher court reversed the previous death-sentence ruling and replaced it with eight years, eight hundred
Read MoreSaudi Arabia and the prequel of the endless War
Where there is oil there is wealth. Where there is wealth there is corruptive power. Where there are oil and weapons, the situation becomes incandescent: Saudi Arabia is the fourth country in the world for military spending, over $ 80 billion in 2014
Read MoreCairo’s Merit Publishing House, Townhouse Gallery Raided; One Merit Staffer Arrested, Released
Two major Cairo cultural institutions saw attacks from the Egyptian state in the twenty-four hours
Read MoreDefeating the monster
So the choices of François Hollande and the government of Manuel Valls, in the aftermath of the massacre by Daesh in the streets of Paris, not only appear as an emotional reaction: they are rather a step in the construction of the state of exception
Read MoreSaudi Arabia, Militarism and New Conflicts 0
Recently Saudi Arabia staged its largest-ever military exercises codenamed “Abdullah’s Shield”
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