
Abdulrahman al-Dowaish, son of the missing preacher Sulaiman al-Dowaish, has been sentenced to two years in prison for enquiring about the fate of his father.
2022-02-09

When the pressure eased, the Saudi authorities resumed their habitual pattern of abuses with renewed intensity, according to ALQST’s latest annual report.
2022-02-07

ALQST is seeing mounting evidence of a deliberate campaign by the Saudi authorities to jeopardise the safety, health and even lives of certain prisoners of conscience.
2022-02-01

ALQST condemns the Saudi authorities’ decision to deport two detained Uyghur Muslims back to China, where they face the risk of torture or forcible disappearance.
2022-01-26

ALQST has learned that once again the life of a prisoner of conscience is being put at risk, with Ibrahim al-Yamani having been moved to a cell with four “takfiris” who have threatened to kill him.
2021-12-14

ALQST has learned through private channels that the widely called-for inquiry into the 12 October killing of Musa al-Qarni in a prison cell has not yet concluded or reported any findings.
2021-12-13

ALQST has learned through private channels that the Saudi authorities have been holding academic Saud al-Sarhan in a state of enforced disappearance since late October.
2021-12-07

ALQST has learned that Abdulrahman al-Dowaish, son of the missing preacher Sulaiman al-Dowaish, was transferred to Malaz Prison in Riyadh on Sunday, 28 November, following two weeks in intensive care.
2021-11-29

ALQST has been following with concern news of the disappearance of US-educated Saudi economist Amer Matrook Alfaleh, son of the writer and political scientist Matrook Alfaleh.
2021-11-29

ALQST has learned through private channels that the Saudi authorities are putting Abdulrahman al-Dowaish, son of the missing preacher Sulaiman al-Dowaish, on trial.
2021-11-10

On 12 October 2021, the human rights community was shocked to learn of the murder in prison of dissident academic and campaigner for reform Musa al-Qarni.
2021-10-19

ALQST has learned that on 5 October 2021 the Court of Appeal in Riyadh upheld the sentence passed on humanitarian activist Abdulrahman al-Sadhan.
2021-10-06

Ten Egyptian nationals belonging to Nubian civic associations in Saudi Arabia have finally been charged, more than a year after being arrested and arbitrarily detained.
2021-09-22

Four years since the Saudi authorities’ crackdown on dissent in September 2017, the majority of those arrested remain in prison.
2021-09-09

The Saudi authorities continue to routinely “disappear” activists and ordinary citizens, forcibly disappearing several more in recent months while others have remained missing for even longer.
2021-08-30

ALQST has learned of the arrest on 14 August 2021 of Abdulwahhab al-Dowaish, son of the preacher Sulaiman al-Dowaish who has been forcibly disappeared since 2016.
2021-08-27