
ALQST and 19 organisations call on Bulgarian authorities to immediately grant asylum to Saudi human rights defender Abdulrahman al-Khalidi.
2025-03-10

ALQST welcomes the recent release of several prisoners of conscience in Saudi Arabia, including high-profile human rights activists, social media influencers, and a dozen members of the Huweitat tribe.
2025-02-28

ALQST’s Annual Report for 2024, published today, highlights the persistence of some worrying human rights trends in Saudi Arabia, but also some notable victories resulting from campaigning efforts.
2025-02-27

Saudi PhD student Salma al-Shehab was released on 10 February 2025 after more than four years of arbitrary imprisonment on the basis of her peaceful online activism supporting women’s rights in Saudi Arabia.
2025-02-11

We welcome the recent decision by a Saudi court to reduce the jail sentence of Saudi prisoner of conscience Salma al-Shehab from 27 years to four years, with an additional four years suspended.
2025-01-15

Saudi human rights defenders Mohammed al-Qahtani and Essa al-Nukheifi were conditionally released this week, after years of arbitrary imprisonment on the basis of their peaceful activism.
2025-01-10

Saudi Arabia’s escalating use of the death penalty has reached horrifying levels in 2024, with at least 306 individuals executed as of 6 December, the highest known figure in Saudi history.
2024-12-09

Ahmed Fathi Kamal Kamel should not be deported to Egypt, where he would be at high risk of being subjected to torture and other human rights violations.
2024-12-02

After a secret retrial, the Specialised Criminal Appeal Court in Saudi Arabia has resentenced political cartoonist Al Hazzaa – full name Mohammed Ahmad Eid Al Hazzaa al-Ghamdi – to 23 years in prison.
2024-11-01

We, the undersigned organisations, call on the Saudi authorities to immediately cease misusing administrative and judicial measures against human rights defenders (HRDs) released from prison.
2024-10-31

The undersigned organisations are horrified by the soaring number of executions in Saudi Arabia. According to data from the Saudi Press Agency, the authorities have executed at least 200 individuals in 2024.
2024-10-10

Partners of Saudi Arabia should send observers to the upcoming trial hearings of Salma al-Shehab and Nourah al-Qahtani starting on September 25, human rights groups say.
2024-09-24

ALQST has recently learned of the arrest and ongoing detention of six individuals from Saudi Arabia’s Jazan Province on the kingdom’s southern border with Yemen.
2024-09-18

30+ NGOs raise concern over the lives of hundreds of prisoners threatened with imminent execution in Saudi Arabia on drugs-related charges.
2024-09-12

The implausible claim that a Shi’a man executed in Saudi Arabia last week had joined a terrorist cell affiliated to Al Qaeda represents a flagrant example of the authorities' political use of the death penalty.
2024-08-22

ALQST today released the findings of a confidential survey of Saudi nationals in exile, "The Saudi Diaspora: A growing community of emigrés and refugees".
2024-08-01