Monitoring & Documentation

While civil society in Saudi Arabia has largely been silenced, and individuals communicating with the outside world are at high risk of reprisals, we maintain an extensive network of sources that enables us to closely monitor human rights violations on the ground and bring them to the attention of the international community.

Monitoring & Documentation Justice obstructed and impunity for Saudi torturers: a case study
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
Monitoring & Documentation Crackdown continues with more arrests and further measures against existing detainees
ALQST has learned that the Saudi authorities have carried out a new wave of arrests of journalists and activists.
2019-11-25
Monitoring & Documentation ALQST has received news that Aida al-Ghamdi was tortured
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
Monitoring & Documentation Saudi authorities round up Arab expats, visitors and pilgrims, and their Saudi employers and sponsors
ALQST has information that the Saudi authorities have been arresting large numbers of foreign residents of various Arab nationalities.
2019-09-12
Monitoring & Documentation Teenager Murtaja Qureiris under threat of execution for actions carried out when he was 11
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
Monitoring & Documentation Saudi prisoners of conscience go on hunger strike over harassment
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
Monitoring & Documentation News of one man who was forcibly disappeared– the search for four others continues
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
Monitoring & Documentation Saudi Arabia: New wave of arrests of activists reflects authorities’ obliviousness to international scrutiny and human rights
Reliable sources informed ALQST that Saudi Arabian authorities carried out a wave of arrests on 4 and 5 April 2019.
2019-04-08
Monitoring & Documentation Saudi authorities should release Saudi-American doctor Walid Fitaihi, imprisoned and tortured since November 2017
ALQST is alarmed that, according to a credible report, Saudi Arabian authorities have tortured Saudi-American medical doctor, 54. 
2019-03-06
Monitoring & Documentation ALQST condemns the Saudi authorities’ mistreatment of Jannat Sybile for five years
ALQST is dismayed to learn of the hardship and injustice experienced by Tunisian nurse Jannat Sybile.
2019-03-01
Monitoring & Documentation Enforced disappearances: five cases that the authorities in Saudi Arabia must account for
ALQST has documented five cases of enforced disappearances in Saudi Arabia.
2019-01-21
Monitoring & Documentation ALQST and MENA Rights Group call on the authorities in Saudi Arabia to immediately release humanitarian worker Abdulrahman AlSadhan
ALQST and MENA Rights Group call on the authorities in Saudi Arabia to immediately release humanitarian worker Abdulrahman AlSadhan, who has been subjected to enforced disappearance since March
2019-01-12
Monitoring & Documentation ALQST Confirms New Details of Torture of Saudi Women Activists as British MPs Seek Access to Prisons to Investigate
ALQST welcomes the announcement made on 2 January 2019 that a cross-party group of British MPs and international lawyers has submitted a request to visit Saudi women activists detained in Saudi prisons.
2019-01-03
Monitoring & Documentation Imprisoned human rights activist Mohammed al-Qahtani transferred to solitary confinement
Imprisoned human rights activist Mohammed al-Qahtani transferred to solitary confinement.
2018-12-18
Monitoring & Documentation “Disappearance” of Jamal Khashoggi requires independent, apolitical investigation and robust response from international community
ALQST is appalled and dismayed at unconfirmed reports that prominent Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi has been murdered in the Saudi Arabian consulate.
2018-10-09
Monitoring & Documentation The businessman and economics writer Essam al-Zamel was arrested for expressing his support for human rights and liberties
The businessman and economics writer Essam al-Zamel was arrested for expressing his support for human rights and liberties.
2018-10-02