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The Saudi Judge’s Action Responding to a request from a paralysed man for tit-for-tat retribution for his assailant, a judge in the northwestern Saudi province of Tabuk has written to several hospitals in Saudi Arabia whether they could sever the assailant’s spinal cord. The Case The victim, Abdul-Aziz al-Mutairi, aged 22, was paralysed and later lost his foot after [...] When Male Guardianship Prevents Justice From Being Heard We have heard of cases when Saudi Arabia’s male guardianship system is abused by Saudi men, resulting in Saudi women suffering. What happens when male guardianship stands in the way of a court hearing? Can justice be denied because of this male guardianship system? The Experience Of Um Hasan A Saudi [...] Saudi Physician Dr Fadha Sultan Trapped Saudi Arabia has strict male guardianship system. But when male guardianship is abused, it is the women who suffer. Examples that come to mind includes Jennifer Birrell and Nazia Quazi. Now there is another case, this time involving a Saudi physician called Dr Fadha Sultan. She too has been trapped inside Saudi [...] Legal Suit Seeks To Stop Female Teachers From Teaching Boys In a further sign of liberalization, Saudi Arabia, which enforces sex segregation, has allowed female teachers to teach primary school boys in girl schools. But the conservatives are fighting back. Islamic scholar and university lecturer Sheikh Youssef Al-Ahmad has filed a lawsuit to stop the Ministry of [...] New Legal Clarification On Organ Donation In UAE Are prospects for the thousands of people in the United Arab Emirates awaiting organ transplants going to be much brighter now that the Ministry of Health there has given the go-ahead for organs to be harvested from deceased persons by specifying the conditions under which these procedures can be [...] Women Support Ban On Gender Mixing Just when it seems that the anti-sex segregation lobby is gaining momentum in Saudi Arabia, along came a group of Saudi women declaring their support for the existing law. What prompted this action, and why did they do it? Open Letter Noor Al-Islam published an open letter on its website. This open letter is [...] Action And Reaction I can still remember some high school physics. There is a law called Newton’s third law of motion. Simply stated, it says: “For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” For years, Saudi Arabia’s religious police have been strictly enforcing the country’s sex segregation law, which bans co-mingling of sexes outside of [...] The Procedure In Saudi Arabia For Nationals To Marry Non-Saudis Even in progressive western countries, people wanting to marry others of another nationality do have to think of immigration laws and regulations. In Saudi Arabia, the couple has to obtain official permission to marry. If they decide to live in Saudi Arabia, they have to apply for [...] Another Case of Saudi Arabia’s Male Guardianship Being Abused Remember Jennifer Birrell, the Australian woman who converted to Islam, got married to a Muslim man, and migrated to Saudi Arabia in 2004 with her husband and children? While there she became an abused wife, subject to physical and emotional abuses and forced to work as the family’s [...] Views Misunderstood Sheikh Ahmed bin Qassim al-Ghamidi is feeling the heat. It wasn’t that long ago that he boldly said: “Mixing between the sexes is just natural and there is no good reason to ban it” and ”I still hold to the view I expressed on gender segregation, and I won’t go back on it, and I’ll continue to [...] |
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