Category Archives: Saudi Arabia

Al-Huraisi Retrial to Begin Next Tuesday

4 April 2008 – 0:01

It has been a while since I have written about those evil buffoons here in Saudi Arabia, the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (or as I prefer to think of them, the Ministry of Licentiousness and Lasciviousness - the C-Men). However, they have been in the news here again.
I [...]

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Airport Security? Cods!

14 March 2008 – 10:36

I’ve been travelling. I left Saudi Arabia on Sunday night and flew to Dubai, Bangkok, Sydney, then back to Bangkok and now I am sitting in Dubai prior to flying back to Saudi Arabia. So, that is five days, two airlines and four airports, twice over. The flights were Emirates (VERY nice airline) from Saudi [...]

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Walk Like An Egyptian … To The Buffet

19 February 2008 – 23:49

I would not have believed it had I not seen it. Mind you, I spent time in Cairo and I can’t remember seeing it there. However, here in Saudi Arabia I can now tell the Egyptian guests at the hotel restaurant.
It is the buffet.
Spending a lot of time in the restaurant at the hotel (like [...]

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Vice Cops Unearth Magical Objects Hidden in Graves

3 December 2007 – 0:17

I forgot to mention. The other day (well , 3 days ago to be exact) the Arab News published a piece about the Vice Cops Unearthing Magical Object Hidden in Graves. This ties in rather nicely with a piece I had here back in October called The C-Men Do Some Good.
Now don’t think that this is [...]

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Al-Huraisi Killing Case: Court Clears Two C-Men

30 November 2007 – 11:06

I noted before that I would keep track of what happened with the Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice members on trial for the brutal killing of a suspect under questioning by the membes of the Commission. To recap, the Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (C-Men or as [...]

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More on the Qatif Girl

30 November 2007 – 2:06

Saudi Arabia’s Arab News (the English language paper) has gone strangely quiet on this, even as CNN interviews their staff. No mention has been made in the Arab News that Prince Saud al-Faisal, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, has called for a judicial review of the whole sentencing of the girl and who noted that:
There [...]

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More on Saudi Justice

25 November 2007 – 15:43

It seems that the Ministry of Justice has been stung to make comment about the ruling in the Qatif Girl rape case. See New Ministry Statement on Qatif Case in the Arab News (also being reported on CNN amongst other places).
Seems the official release from the Ministry of Justice notes that the woman and man [...]

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CNN Subject to Saudi Justice?

20 November 2007 – 23:32

I don’t know if it is related or not. Yesterday I posted in Thomo’s Hole about Saudi Justice and the woman who was ordered to receive lashes even though she was raped by seven men. I also noted that CNN had picked up the story. When I got back to my hotel room this evening [...]

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Saudi Justice?

19 November 2007 – 23:05

Picture this. Young girl, about 16 years old, has a friendship with a boy. What happened during that friendship is not important really but during that time, the boy took some photos of the girl.
Some time passes. The girl is 18 and gets married. The boy contacts her and says something like “hi, I’ve got [...]

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Lawrence of Arabia & the Light Horse

12 November 2007 – 9:30

The Australian War Memorial Museum has started a blog to inform folks about their forthcoming exhibition concerning T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) and the Australian Light Horse in Palestine in 1917-1918. The exhibition will open in December 2007 in Canberra and run over the summer of 2007-08. I for one will be visiting that [...]

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