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Saudi Arabia
Saudi police open fire on civilians as protests gain momentumPatrick Cockburn The Independent 10/04/2011 | Saudi women get right to vote, but can't drive yetABDULLAH AL-SHIHRI and HAMZA HENDAWI AP 09/25/2011 |
 Pro-democracy protests which swept the Arab world earlier in the year have erupted in eastern Saudi Arabia over the past three days, with police opening fire with live rounds and many people injured, opposition activists say. |  Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah, considered a reformer by the standards of his own ultraconservative kingdom, decreed on Sunday that women will for the first time have the right to vote and run in local elections due in 2015. |
In UN week, Saudi says to ease Palestinian crisisTom Perry Reuters 09/19/2011 | Saudi King Bans Men From Selling Lingerie My FOX NY 06/06/2011 |
 Saudi Arabia will pay $200 million to the Palestinian Authority, the official Palestinian news agency said on Monday, funds that will ease a financial crisis faced by the authority as it prepares to apply for full U.N. membership this week. |  Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah decreed that only women would be allowed to work in the kingdom's lingerie shops, the official SPA news agency reported Monday. |
Facebook page calls for beating Saudi women drivers Breitbart.com 05/25/2011 | Saudi woman detained for defying driving banABDULLAH AL-SHIHRI My Way News 05/22/2011 |
 A campaign has been launched on Facebook calling for men to beat Saudi women who drive their cars in a planned protest next month against the ultra-conservative kingdom's ban on women taking the wheel. |  Authorities detained a Saudi woman on Saturday after she launched a campaign against the driving ban for women in the ultraconservative kingdom and posted a video of herself behind the wheel on Facebook and YouTube to encourage others to copy her. |
A Few Brave Women Dare Take Wheel in Defiance of Saudi Law Against DrivingDonna Abu-Nasr Bloomberg.com 05/11/2011 | Saudi police: al-Qaida member surrenders Yahoo! News 05/04/2011 |
 Manal, a 32-year-old woman, is planning something she’s never done openly in her native Saudi Arabia: Get in her car and take to the streets, defying a ban on female drivers in the kingdom. |  Saudi Arabia says an al-Qaida member on the kingdom's most wanted list called from abroad and turned himself in. |
US Defense Secretary tries to soothe Saudis rattled by unrestROBERT BURNS AP 04/06/2011 | Now Saudis take to the streets to demand the release of prisoners held without trial Daily Mail 03/20/2011 |
 Defense Secretary Robert Gates tried to smooth the worst rift in years with Arab ally and oil producer Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, reassuring the Saudi king that the U.S. remains a steady friend despite support for pro-democracy revolutions in the Middle East. |  Dozens of Saudi men and women have gathered outside the Interior Ministry in Riyadh to demand the release of their relatives who have been held without trial for years. |
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