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Kasturi Munirathinam’s right arm was cut off, allegedly by her employer, when she tried to escape from their house last week, where she was working as a domestic help.

Her family has stated that she was being tortured by her Saudi employers and her employers had been angered after she complained about the harassment she was facing, as BBC reports.

The news story looked even more bizarre than the one in 2010 which announced that (then-prime minister) President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an had won the Al-Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights. 

Saudi and Iranian health ministers have agreed to repatriate Iranian pilgrims killed in last week's Hajj stampede, Saudi state media said, after Tehran threatened a "fierce" response over delays.
 
Tehran has accused Saudi of hindering its efforts to bring home the bodies of at least 239 Iranians who died in last week's tragedy near the Muslim holy city of Mecca.    

A U.S. judge on Sept.29 dismissed claims against Saudi Arabia by families of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, who accused the country of providing material support to al Qaeda. 

You must have heard about the latest disaster in Mecca, Islam's holiest city, on Sept. 24. More than 700 pilgrims died in a stampede on the way to the ritual of "stoning the devil." And this was only a repetition of similar disasters that happened again in Mecca, and again during the Hajj, the annual pilgrimage that millions of Muslims come from all around the world to do.

Iran's president on Sept. 28 blamed Saudi "incompetence" for the mass deaths of Muslim pilgrims four days ago during the hajj in Saudi Arabia, comments that stoked already high tensions between the two Middle East rivals.

Saudi Arabia is about to behead a 21-year-old man and then crucify him to display his body in public. This same country was just chosen to head a U.N. Human Rights Council panel. If it weren’t so serious this would be funny!

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has come to the defense of Saudi Arabia against domestic and international criticism after 770 pilgrims died in a stampede during the hajj at the beginning of Eid al-Adha last week. 

It is wrong to assume the Saudi regime does not care about hajj security, that it does not use modern technology and leaves the business to fate; it is also wrong to clear the Saudis of all wrong and say, "Such things happen in every country."

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei demanded Saudi Arabia apologise on Sept. 27 for a stampede that killed nearly 770 pilgrims at the hajj, at least 144 of them Iranians.