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Ansarullah

Ansarullah

A Zaidi Shiite movement operating in Yemen. It seeks to establish a democratic government in Yemen.
Shiite

Shiite

represents the second largest denomination of Islam. Shiites believe Ali (peace be upon him) to be prophet"s successor in the Caliphate.
Resistance

Resistance

Axis of Resistances refers to countries and movements with common political goal, i.e., resisting against Zionist regime, America and other western powers. Iran, Syria, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Hamas in Palestine are considered as the Axis of Resistance.
Persian Gulf Cooperation Council

Persian Gulf Cooperation Council

A regional political u n i o n consisting of Arab states of the Persian Gulf, except for Iraq.
Taliban

Taliban

Taliban is a Sunni fundamentalist movement in Afghanistan. It was founded by Mohammed Omar in 1994.
  Wahhabism & Extremism

Wahhabism & Extremism

Wahhabism is an extremist pseudo-Sunni movement, which labels non-Wahhabi Muslims as apostates thus paving the way for their bloodshed.
Kurds

Kurds

Kurds are an ethnic group in the Middle East, mostly inhabiting a region, which spans adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. They are an Iranian people and speak the Kurdish languages, which form a subgroup of the Northwestern Iranian branch of Iranian languages.
NATO

NATO

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949.
Islamic Awakening

Islamic Awakening

Refers to a revival of the Islam throughout the world, that began in 1979 by Iranian Revolution that established an Islamic republic.
Al-Qaeda

Al-Qaeda

A militant Sunni organization founded by Osama bin Laden at some point between 1988 and 1989
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Saudi Regime Arrests Dissident Clerics, Prince

Saudi Regime Arrests Dissident Clerics, Prince

Monday 11 September 2017
Awad al-Qarni, in what appears to be a crackdown on Wahhabi clerics and a royal family prince seen as critics of the kingdom's absolute rulers. Sheikh Salman al-Awdah, an influential cleric who was imprisoned from 1994-99 for agitating for political change and has 14 million followers on Twitte ...
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Saudi Regime Urged to Release Detained Clerics

Saudi Regime Urged to Release Detained Clerics

Tuesday 12 September 2017 ،
Awad Al-Qarni and Ali Al-Omar. More arrests continued on Monday leading to the detention of Sheikh Ibrahim Al-Harithi, Sheikh Mohamed Al-Khodairi, Hassan Farhan, Gharm Al-Beeshi and others. While the names of all those detained have not been made public, Prince Abdul Aziz bin Fahd is rumored to be ...
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Saudi Regime Continues Crackdown, Citizens Call for Protests

Saudi Regime Continues Crackdown, Citizens Call for Protests

Friday 15 September 2017 ،
Awad al-Qarni and Ali al-Omary were detained over the weekend, according to Saudi sources. On Tuesday, activists dedicated to monitoring and documenting what they describe as “prisoners of conscience” reported that at least eight other prominent figures, including clerics, academics, te ...
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Saudi Regime Condemned for Crackdown on Opponents

Saudi Regime Condemned for Crackdown on Opponents

Friday 15 September 2017 ،
Awad al-Qarni, as well as some people activists seen as opponents of the ruling Al Saud clan. Awdah and Qarni, who have millions of followers on social media, were among Saudi scholars who opposed the presence of US troops in the kingdom during the 1991 Persian Gulf War over Kuwait. They have both ...
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Human Rights Lawyers Ask Saudi Suspension from UN Rights Council

Human Rights Lawyers Ask Saudi Suspension from UN Rights Council

Wednesday 31 January 2018 ،
Awad al-Qarni and Ali al-Omari.  Shortly before his arrest, Awdah had been told to support Saudi's blockade against Qatar with a specific text, a family member told Human Rights Watch. But he tweeted an apparent call for reconciliation between the Gulf countries instead. A Saudi ...
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Mecca Imam Arrested Amid Crackdown by Saudi Regime

Mecca Imam Arrested Amid Crackdown by Saudi Regime

Friday 24 August 2018 ،
Awad al-Qarni, Farhan al-Malki, Mostafa Hassan and Safar al-Hawali. Al-Awdah and al-Qarni, who have millions of followers on social media, were arrested last September and was accused of having links to the Muslim Brotherhood, a group Saudi Arabia blacklisted as a terror organization.  Meanwhi ...
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Rights Group Express Concern over ‘Enforced Disappearance’ in Saudi Arabia

Rights Group Express Concern over ‘Enforced Disappearance’ in Saudi Arabia

Monday 10 January 2022 ،
Awad al-Qarni, Hassan al-Maliki, Muhammad al-Munajjid, and Essam al-Zamel were among other prominent figures detained in September 2017. The group also noted that the female activists have also become a target of the “brutal repression and enforced disappearance,” adding that there are ...
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Saudi Regime Sentences to Death Critic University Professor

Saudi Regime Sentences to Death Critic University Professor

Sunday 15 January 2023 ،
Awad al-Qarni, a pro-reform law professor in Saudi Arabia, was made public in a report published by the Guardian newspaper on Sunday. Qarni's son, Nasser, who last year fled the kingdom and is living in the UK, shared the details of the charges brought against his father with the British daily. ...

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