Arabic News Weekly Edition for Saudi Arabia, 10/13/2003
Weekly Edition, Saudi Arabia - Week of October 13, 2003
- Saudi Arabia reiterates support to Morocco's 2010 world cup bid Saudi Arabia-Morocco, Sports, 10/18/2003
- Saudi crown attacks extremists
Saudi ArabiaÕs Crown Prince Abdullah Ibn Abdul Aziz criticized what he called Islamist extremists and described their belief as deviation from Islam. Saudi Arabia-Regional, Politics, 10/18/2003 - Riyadh human rights declaration released
Saudi Arabia has played down the demonstration that took place in Riyadh on Tuesday. The Saudi minister of the interior Prince Nayef Bin Abdul Aziz announced the detention of more than 150 persons in the March of protest which he said that 150 persons took part in it, while the Kingdom's Mufti (highest religious cleric) Sheikh Abdul Aziz Bin Abdullah al-Sheikh considered that the demonstrations are "the morals of non-Muslims," calling for "loyalty to the ruler." Saudi Arabia, Politics, 10/16/2003 - People's aggregation in the center of Riyadh at the invitation of the opposition
Hundreds of Saudi Arabian citizens gathered yesterday afternoon near the trade center in al-Elleya street in the downtown of the capital, Riyadh, at the invitation of the opposition Islamic movement for reforms in protest of detentions, the movement says. This was, however, a unique sort of political drive in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia, Politics, 10/15/2003 - Saudi Arabia's first municipal elections in one year
Saudi Arabia has announced it will organize municipal elections within one year, a step which was described by observers as the first tangible political reform act in the Kingdom. Saudi Arabia, Politics, 10/14/2003 - No Saudi forces to Iraq outside Arab consent and legitimacy
Saudi Arabia's ministry of defense yesterday denied that Riyadh has intention to send forces to Iraq without the request of a "legitimate" Iraqi government and "a common Arab approval," in reply to information published by certain media by the end of the week. Saudi Arabia-Iraq, Politics, 10/13/2003