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Fact-Check

Fact-check: Did a man in Saudi Arabia marry four women from the same school

OpIndia Staff - 23 May, 2022

The viral message claims the Saudi man married four women from the same school. A student, a teacher, a supervisor and a principal.

News Reports

Burqa-clad protester Muskan Khan visits Saudi Arabia a month after getting high praise from Al-Qaeda chief

OpIndia Staff - 12 May, 2022

Muskan Khan has left for Saudi Arabia on a religious trip with her family on April 25. The controversial hijab protestor and her family are scheduled to visit Mecca on May 18, as per reports.

Entertainment

Saudi Arabia bans Marvel’s ‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’. Here’s why

OpIndia Staff - 24 April, 2022

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, latest offering from MCU, was all set to release in Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries on May 5.

News Reports

Saudi prince who owns 5.2% of Twitter refuses to sell his shares after Elon Musk proposes to buy out the company: Here is what...

OpIndia Staff - 15 April, 2022

While reacting to the development, Elon Musk had inquired, "How much of Twitter does the Kingdom own, directly & indirectly? What are the Kingdom’s views on journalistic freedom of speech?"

News Reports

Yoga soon to be a part of the sports curriculum in Saudi Arabia schools: Saudi Yoga committee working with Edu ministry

OpIndia Staff - 17 March, 2022

The president of the Saudi Yoga Committee (SYC) Nouf Al-Marwaai has announced the decision on 14th March 2022.

News Reports

Blogger Raif Badawi released after 1000 lashes and 10 years in prison: How criticism of Sharia laws, Kingdom of Saud changed his life

Dibakar Dutta - 12 March, 2022

Raif Badawi had dared to speak his mind, despite being aware of the harsh consequences under the totalitarian regime of the Saudi monarch.

World

Saudi, UAE leaders decline calls with Joe Biden amid fears of oil price rise even as they took calls from Putin amid Russia-Ukraine war

OpIndia Staff - 9 March, 2022

The relationship between Saudi Arabia and United States has deteriorated under the Joe Biden administration.

News Reports

USA: Al-Qaeda terrorist who wanted to participate in 9/11 attacks released for psychiatric treatment, Biden administration dropped legal challenge

OpIndia Staff - 8 March, 2022

The prisoner named al-Qahtani was trained by Islamist terror outfit Al-Qaeda and had tried to enter the United States unsuccessfully on August 4, 2001, to participate in the deadly 9/11 attacks.

News Reports

Hijab as ‘choice’: When 15 girls were left to die in a raging fire just because they were not ‘appropriately dressed’

OpIndia Staff - 24 February, 2022

In 2002, 15 Muslim school girls died as they were not allowed to escape a burning school building by Religious Police for not wearing hijab, rescuers were not allowed to help them because 'touching' women was not allowed.

News Reports