
The COVID-19 pandemic now sweeping the world is known to be particularly highly contagious and transmissible affecting mostly those who live in overcrowded and unhygienic environments.
2020-03-19

12 March 2020 marks the two-year anniversary of the disappearance of Abdulrahman AlSadhan at the hands of Saudi Arabia’s Mabahith secret police.
2020-03-12

In a letter smuggled from inside the Saudi prison system, detained human rights activist Khaled al-Omair has announced the suspension of his hunger strike.
2020-02-12

ALQST has re-launched a new and interactive "Prisoners of Conscience" webpage that presents the profiles of scores of prisoners of conscience arbitrarily detained in Saudi Arabia.
2020-01-21

List of executions in Saudi Arabia in 2019.
2020-01-20

ALQST has received news confirming the arrest and detention of female journalist and writer Maha al-Rafidi al-Qahtani.
2020-01-14

ALQST has received from its sources inside Saudi prisons a written message from prisoner of conscience Khaled bin Suleiman al-Omair.
2019-12-22

ALQST has learned that detained human rights activist Waleed Abu al-Khair has been on hunger strike since 29 November 2019.
2019-12-06

ALQST receives many reports of detainees being mistreated in Saudi prisons, and of Saudi courts refusing to order investigations into torture allegations.
2019-11-26

ALQST has learned that the Saudi authorities have carried out a new wave of arrests of journalists and activists.
2019-11-25

ALQST has received news that Aida al-Ghamdi and her son Adel al-Ghamdi were subjected to severe torture by the Saudi authorities.
2019-10-29

ALQST has information that the Saudi authorities have been arresting large numbers of foreign residents of various Arab nationalities.
2019-09-12

The Public Prosecution in Saudi Arabia is calling for the death penalty for 18-year-old Murtaja Abdullah Qureiris (born 22 October 2000).
2019-06-11

Leading Saudi human rights activist Abdulaziz al-Shubaily has gone on hunger strike in protest over multiple instances of harassment while in detention.
2019-05-16

On 21 January 2019, ALQST published a statement about five individuals who had been forcibly disappeared in Saudi Arabia, and about whose fate nothing was known.
2019-05-08

Reliable sources informed ALQST that Saudi Arabian authorities carried out a wave of arrests on 4 and 5 April 2019.
2019-04-08