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Saudi Arabia Blocks Amnesty International's Website

Written bySolana Larsen

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Posted 25 July 2011 14:15 GMT

Saudi Arabia has blocked access to the website of the human rights organisation Amnesty International following their leak of a draft for a new Saudi anti-terrorism law that would introduce harsher penalties for political dissent or critique of the royal family.

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