Saudi Arabian King Abdullah’s death ends a fourteen-and-a-half year reign that saw marginal policy changes, particularly of those which relate to human rights.
With the advent of media in every sphere of human life, even the last bastion of protection from prying eyes – the judiciary – seems to have fallen. Trial by media made famous, or infamous, by the O.J. Simpson murde...
“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all the murderers are punished unless they kill in large number and to the sound of trumpets.” – Voltaire On January 19, 1990, the biggest ever exodus of people since the...