Quotes
Deutsche Welle (DW)
Vision 2030
2026-02-02
Saudi Arabia reshapes Vision 2030 around new priorities
Julia Legner, Executive Director of the London-based human rights watchdog ALQST, told DW that "these oversized, top-down initiatives, driven by the P...
Middle East Eye
Death penalty
2025-10-21
‘Cruellest violation’: Saudi Arabia executes second child offender in two months
“From the moment of his arrest over a decade ago to his grossly unfair and secretive trial, Derazi endured a relentless pattern of abuse at the hands...
New Civil Engineer
Neom
2025-10-08
Saudi authorities accused of attempted displacement of community impacted by Neom port
Al-Muwaila is a village in the south of Tabuk province on the Red Sea coast, and Saudi-focused human rights group ALQST has claimed that its residents...
Sports Pro
Sport
2025-10-06
Saudi Arabia sports sponsorship: Fifa, F1 and ICC challenged over Aramco deals
Maryam Aldossari, ALQST board member and senior lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London, said: “Saudi Aramco provides a critical source of re...
Middle East Eye
Freedom of expression
2025-09-25
French man held in Saudi Arabia for over a year after Hajj scam
Nadyeen Abdulaziz, Alqst's monitoring and advocacy officer, said: "Abdelfattah’s harsh treatment exposes the stark contrast between Saudi Arabia’s ref...
New Civil Engineer
Neom
2025-07-11
Civils progress update and last indigenous people forcibly evicted
On 23 June 2025, the Saudi Arabia-focused human rights organisation Alqst reported that “the last remaining inhabitants of Al-Khuraiba village have be...
The Guardian
Women's rights
2025-05-28
Revealed: Saudi Arabia’s secretive rehabilitation ‘prisons’ for disobedient women
The human rights group ALQST says Dar al-Reaya facilities are notorious within Saudi Arabia as state tools for enforcing gender norms and “stand in st...
BBC
Sport
2025-02-19
Council pressed to act over Saudi 'sportswashing'
Ms Legner said the council had shown "sympathy and solidarity", but that its representatives declined to have a picture taken and were "not very forth...
BBC
Salma al-Shehab
2025-02-10
Saudi PhD student freed after being jailed over posts, activists say
Shehab's release was first reported by ALQST, a UK-based Saudi rights group, which said she had been subjected to "four years of arbitrary imprisonmen...
Middle East Eye
Digital rights
2024-12-20
Why did online footage of a 'historic' UN panel in Riyadh disappear?
'How can we discuss internet governance if freedom of expression and security are undermined at the very forums meant to uphold them?' Lina Hathloul,...
France 24
Digital rights
2024-12-18
Activist tells Saudi-hosted UN forum of 'silencing' of dissent
"For today, an empty chair will have to represent my voice -- a stark symbol of the silencing faced by so many of us," said Hathloul, head of communic...
Deutsche Welle (DW)
Sportswashing
2024-12-11
World Cup 2034: Saudi Arabia's human rights failures ignored
Lina al-Hathloul, the head of monitoring and advocacy at ALQST, a Saudi human rights organization, says that the world should not be distracted by a m...
Guardian
Sportswashing
2024-10-21
Top female footballers urge Fifa to end deal with Saudi ‘nightmare sponsor’
Lina al-Hathloul, head of monitoring and advocacy at ALQST for Human Rights, said: “As long as Saudi Arabia’s authorities fail to genuinely respect wo...
Middle East Eye
Saudi diaspora
2024-08-01
Huge spike in Saudi Arabians seeking asylum since 2013, survey finds
The number of Saudi Arabians "fleeing their country and seeking asylum abroad" has spiked since 2013, according to a first-ever survey of its kind pub...
Dezeen
Neom
2024-06-01
Neom being "built on the blood of Saudis" says ALQST's Lina Alhathloul
"It is a project that is definitely not a priority for the Saudi people, given the current state of existing cities in the country," ALQST head of mon...
TV interviews
Op-eds
Maryam Aldossari
Saudi Arabia’s Violence Against Women Isn’t Culture — It’s Policy
As Saudi Arabia is hailed abroad for its ‘reforms,’ the reality for women inside the kingdom grows ever more repressive.
2025-11-26
Lina Alhathloul
My family is banned from leaving Saudi Arabia. Why should it host the World Cup?
Keir Starmer will soon visit the Gulf to secure investment, raising fears he is going along with Saudi sportswashing.
2024-11-25
Lina Alhathloul
Double discours envers les femmes
La stratégie «Vision 2030» décrit les femmes comme «un autre grand atout» et déclare qu’elle vise à les «autonomiser». Mais qu’en est-il si l’on confronte la communication officielle à la réalité?
2024-10-03
Lina Alhathloul
Saudi Arabia is rebranding itself as a moderate country, but what’s the truth? Just ask our female activists
My sister Loujain has been placed under a travel ban and lives in constant fear of arrest. She is one of many.
2024-04-17
Lina Alhathloul
Biden is mending ties with our oppressors. He should listen to us instead.
The three of us grew up in the same neighborhood in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, but until recently, that’s where any similarity ended.
2022-09-28
Abdullah Aljuraywi
Don't let Saudi Arabia use a Formula 1 race to hide the abysmal way it treats its people
On Sunday, December 5, 2021, Saudi Arabia will host its first ever Formula 1 Grand Prix. Thousands of motorsport fans will gather to watch the action in the coastal city of Jeddah.
2021-12-05
Joshua Cooper
What Saudi prisons can tell us about the kingdom’s rulers
Conditions in Saudi Arabia’s prisons and detention centres starkly expose the true nature of Mohammed bin Salman’s rule.
2021-08-06
Julia Legner
Saudi Arabia’s image-building efforts suffer another setback
Saudi Arabia’s presidency of this year’s G20 is no longer the golden PR opportunity Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman dreamed of.
2020-11-10
Julia Legner
Torture casts a shadow over the G20
Its proven practice of systematic torture should disqualify Saudi Arabia from holding the presidency of the G20.
2020-07-12
