Saudi Arabia has abolished flogging as a punishment, the supreme court announced, hailing the latest in a series of "human rights advances" made by the king and his powerful son. The most high-profile ...

Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia's king waived a flogging sentence on a female journalist charged for involvement in a risque TV show, the second such pardoning of a high-profile case by the monarch in ...

JEDDAH – As per the Saudi legal system which is based on Shariah law, acceptable punishments given by local courts to convicts include flogging sentences. Lashes are commonly combined with ...

RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's ruling family is coming under pressure from Western countries over its weekly flogging of writer Raif Badawi for "insulting Islam", but it appears more worried about ...

Comedians performing at the Riyadh Comedy Festival did not use their public platform to urge Saudi authorities to free ...

JEDDAH — The Summary Court in Jeddah has sentenced a Saudi man found guilty of drunk driving to flogging. The Saudi is known for his “liberal” views. His father had filed a disobedience lawsuit ...

A rights group is urging some top-level Western comedians not to be "complicit in covering up the abuses of a repressive ...