Arabic News Weekly Edition for Saudi Arabia, 9/20/2004
Weekly Edition, Saudi Arabia - Week of September 20, 2004
- Riyadh: one extremist arrested Saudi Arabia, Local, 9/25/2004
- Okaz: Riyadh: a book withdrawn over containing Jewish texts
The Saudi daily Okaz said yesterday that the local authorities in Hael area (640 Km to the north of al-Riyadh) ordered the pull out of a book published in Beirut over containing texts taken from the Torah "in contradiction to the holy Koran and the Sunnah." Saudi Arabia, Education, 9/24/2004 - Two Saudi women to join municipal elections
Two Saudi women yesterday announced they intend to be nominated for the first municipal elections in February, 2004 in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia, Politics, 9/22/2004 - Saudi Arabia: one wanted was arrested, three police men injured
Saudi Arabia's ministry of the interior said that the Saudi security forces arrested one wanted extremist following a fire exchange in Tabbouk city yesterday. Saudi Arabia, Local, 9/21/2004 - Saudi Academic sentenced for five year imprisonment
A court in Saudi Arabia's capital, Riyadh, sentenced yesterday to five year imprisonment the Islamists Saudi Academic, Saed Bin Zaer, after he was found guilty of "provoking sedition and provoking to oppose the rulers." Saudi Arabia, Politics, 9/20/2004 - Riyadh refuses American accusations over religious freedoms Saudi Arabia, Politics, 9/20/2004