
On this day dedicated to the end of impunity for crimes against journalists, ALQST pays tribute to all those who lost their lives and suffered attacks in the exercise of their freedom of expression.
2020-11-02

12 October 2020 marks the 11th anniversary of the establishment of the Saudi Association for Civil and Political Rights (ACPRA), whose members are pioneers and champions of the Saudi human rights movement.
2020-10-12

On Monday, 7 September 2020, the Criminal Court in Riyadh commuted five death sentences to long prison terms in the trial for journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s murder.
2020-09-09

The practice of enforced disappearance is systematic and widespread in Saudi Arabia. It is used by the authorities to silence activists, journalists or anyone critical of the authorities.
2020-08-28

Among those caught up in the crackdown have been Basma bint Saud Al Saud, Salman bin Abdulaziz bin Salman bin Mohammed Al Saud, and Salman’s father Abdulaziz Al Saud.
2020-08-20

ALQST has news that Hezam al-Ahmari, 36, an employee at Jeddah seaport, was arrested on 10 February 2020.
2020-08-19

The unexplained death on 19 July of Saudi journalist Saleh al-Shehi, just two months after his unexpected release from prison, raises many questions.
2020-07-22

ALQST has learned that in late April the Saudi authorities carried out a spate of arrests of journalists and intellectuals for expressing sympathy over the death of Abdullah al-Hamid.
2020-07-21

Despite publicly undertaking to end torture in Saudi Arabia, the authorities continue to practise torture systematically in prisons and interrogation rooms.
2020-06-26

Accounts on social media have published a decree from King Salman that would end Saudi judges’ discretion to apply the death penalty to minors.
2020-05-10

ALQST has been monitoring the repeated violations being committed by the Saudi authorities in their bid to evict members of the Huwaitat tribe from their homes.
2020-04-25

Visionary human rights defender Dr Abdullah al-Hamid, 69, died on 23 April 2020 at the King Saud Medical City Hospital after suffering a cerebral stroke on 9 April 2020.
2020-04-24

Information has reached ALQST that Dr Abdullah al-Hamid – one of Saudi Arabia’s best known political detainees – is currently in intensive care at a hospital in Riyadh in critical condition.
2020-04-17

It is just over a year since the arrest of Dr Mohammed Saleh al-Khudari, a leading Palestinian official and long-term resident of Saudi Arabia.
2020-04-17

The Saudi authorities are continuing to hold secret trials, ensuring that judicial proceedings in Saudi Arabia fall far short of international fair trial standards.
2020-04-17

Between 4 and 9 April 2019, the Saudi authorities arrested at least 15 bloggers, writers and family members of women human rights defenders.
2020-04-17