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 ...

RIYADH—The flogging of a writer convicted of insulting Islam has renewed debate over corporal punishment in Saudi Arabia at a time the ultraconservative country is trying to distance itself from ...

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 ...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia plans to delay the public flogging of a rights activist on medical grounds, Amnesty International said on Thursday, raising the possibility that Riyadh may be trying to ...

The undersigned organizations are deeply concerned by an alarming escalation in executions in Saudi Arabia, in which ...

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 ...