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29 June 2019, Japan, Osaka: Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdelasis al-Saud, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, will attend the third working session of the G20 summit. The heads of state and government of the 19 leading industrialised and emerging countries and the European Union will meet at the G20 summit in Osaka (Japan) on 28 and 29 June 2019. Photo: Bernd von Jutrczenka/dpa (Photo by Bernd von Jutrczenka/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Media Advisory: U.S. Senate Fails to Block Arms Sale to Saudi Arabia

December 8, 2021

PARIS, FRANCE - FEBRUARY 05: Saudi Prince Salman Bin Abdulaziz Bin Salman Al-Saud attends the 8th Annual Dinner of the 'Societe Des Amis Du Musee D'Art Moderne' at Centre Pompidou on February 5, 2013 in Paris, France. (Photo by Bertrand Rindoff Petroff/Getty Images)

Saudi Authorities Reveal Location of Disappeared Royals, Allow Family Visits

November 22, 2021

Palestinian queue at stand-pipe to fill plastic containers with clean water in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip 04 September 2007. Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Haim Ramon today threatened to cut electricity, water and fuel supplies into Gaza if militants in the Hamas-ruled territory continued to fire rockets into Israel. AFP PHOTO /MAHMUD HAMS (Photo credit should read MAHMUD HAMS/AFP via Getty Images)

U.S.: Support Passage of Gaza Reporting Amendment to National Defense Authorization Act

November 16, 2021

An Israeli woman uses her iPhone in front of the building housing the Israeli NSO group, on August 28, 2016, in Herzliya, near Tel Aviv. - Apple iPhone owners, earlier in the week, were urged to install a quickly released security update after a sophisticated attack on an Emirati dissident exposed vulnerabilities targeted by cyber arms dealers.
Lookout and Citizen Lab worked with Apple on an iOS patch to defend against what was called "Trident" because of its triad of attack methods, the researchers said in a joint blog post.
Trident is used in spyware referred to as Pegasus, which a Citizen Lab investigation showed was made by an Israel-based organization called NSO Group. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP) (Photo by JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

The U.S. Must Impose Khashoggi Ban on Israeli Officials Engaged in Surveillance of Palestinian Activists

November 8, 2021

Human-rights American activist and director of Human Rights Watch Middle East and North Africa, Sarah Leah Whitson, gives a press conferenceon October 21, 2010 in Tunis to present a report, entitled "The price of independence, silencing labor and student unions in Tunisia". AFP PHOTO / FETHI BELAID (Photo credit should read FETHI BELAID/AFP via Getty Images)

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DAWN to Lantos Commission: Middle East Governments Abuse Counterterrorism Laws to Repress Civil Society

October 26, 2021

RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA - OCTOBER 23: (----EDITORIAL USE ONLY â MANDATORY CREDIT - " ROYAL COURT OF SAUDI ARABIA / HANDOUT" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS----) Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attends the opening of the Saudi Green Initiative Forum, via video link, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on October 23, 2021. (Photo by Royal Court of Saudi Arabia/Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

New Revelations Expose Saudi Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman's Plot to Murder King Abdullah and Former Goverment Official

October 24, 2021

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Israel's Baseless Designation of Palestinian Civil Society Groups as "Terrorist Institutions"

October 22, 2021

Mohamed Anwar Esmat Sadat, former member of parliament and nephew of the late Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat, speaks to AFP in his office in the capital Cairo on September 13, 2018. (Photo by Mohamed el-Shahed / AFP) (Photo credit should read MOHAMED EL-SHAHED/AFP via Getty Images)

Five Questions for Egyptian Delegation to Washington

October 5, 2021

ANKARA, TURKEY - OCTOBER 01: Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat attends a signing ceremony of Development Cooperation Agreement between the African Union Commission and TIKA in Ankara, Turkey on October 01, 2021. (Photo by Fatih Kurt/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

African Union: Withdraw Israel's Observer Status

October 4, 2021

"How can we progress as a nation when those offering constructive feedback and (often humorous) dissent are banished?"

Jamal Khashoggi