Arabic News Weekly Edition for Saudi Arabia, 12/15/2003
Weekly Edition, Saudi Arabia - Week of December 15, 2003
- Saudi crown prince threatens to exterminate terrorists
Saudi Arabia's crown prince Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz yesterday stressed the determination of the Saudi authorities to exterminate terrorism from the kingdom, saying that "we have to exterminate them ultimately." Saudi Arabia, Politics, 12/20/2003 - Saudis patition crown prince Abdullah for a constitutional monarchy and parliamentary elections
A group of 116 Saudi Arabian businessmen, intellectuals, university professors and scholars, leaders of civil societies and constitutional reforms announced a "national appeal for constitutional reform" to Crown Prince Abdullah Ibn Abdul Aziz dated December 16, 2003. Saudi Arabia, Politics, 12/19/2003 - Saudi Prince Sultan Bin Abdul Aziz arrives in Morocco Morocco-Saudi Arabia, Politics, 12/19/2003
- Human rights committee waits for Saudi consent to launching it
Two Saudi Arabian reforming activists announced in Bahrain yesterday that 53 of their activists colleagues and intellectuals, including 10 women, are waiting for the reply of the Saudi government to its request to annouce a Saudi national committee for human rights they had applied for nine months before. Saudi Arabia, Politics, 12/18/2003 - Saudi sources deny near release of detainees
A source, close to the mediators between the Saudi Arabian authorities and wanted Saudis, denied news on releasing 300 detainees suspected to be involved in what is called terrorism, during the few coming days, and stressed that the news are groundless. Saudi Arabia, Politics, 12/18/2003 - Al-Awaji: some 300 Saudi detainees accused of terrorism will be released shortly
The Saudi lawyer Sheikh Mohsin al-Awaji said yesterday that about 300 persons out of 900 detained in the Saudi prisons over suspicion to have links to terrorism will be released in "the few coming days." Saudi Arabia, Politics, 12/17/2003