Monitoring & Documentation
Corona Virus (COVID-19) and the need to safeguard the health of prisoners in Saudi Arabia
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
Monitoring & Documentation
Two years since arrest and disappearance of Saudi humanitarian worker Abdulrahman AlSadhan
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
Monitoring & Documentation
Prisoners of conscience announce end of hunger strike
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
Monitoring & Documentation
ALQST re-launches Prisoners of Conscience webpage
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
Monitoring & Documentation
List of executions in Saudi Arabia in 2019
List of executions in Saudi Arabia in 2019.
2020-01-20
Monitoring & Documentation
Ongoing detention of female journalist and writer Maha al-Rafidi confirmed
ALQST has received news confirming the arrest and detention of female journalist and writer Maha al-Rafidi al-Qahtani.
2020-01-14
Monitoring & Documentation
Khaled al-Omair joins #SaudiPOCsHungerStrike and sends message from behind bars
ALQST has received from its sources inside Saudi prisons a written message from prisoner of conscience Khaled bin Suleiman al-Omair.
2019-12-22
Monitoring & Documentation
Human rights activist Waleed Abu al-Khair on hunger strike in protest against ill-treatment in prison
ALQST has learned that detained human rights activist Waleed Abu al-Khair has been on hunger strike since 29 November 2019.
2019-12-06
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
