Cultural Restitution

October 12, 2020
SAUDI ARABIA
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Saudi Arabia

Updated October 2020


Below is a schedule of restitutions made by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and/or news relating to restitutions.

Entries are updated regularly


November 2019

250 stolen documents, smuggled into Saudi Arabia, have been returned to Iraq's House of Books and Documents

Saudi Gazette




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