We’re honoured to be partnering for a second year with University of York students on a human rights defence clinic, hosted by @cahr-york.bsky.social.
We encourage anyone to follow them and engage with these activities over the coming weeks.
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Executions carried out by #SaudiArabia's authorities under King Salman have now surpassed 2000.
Our latest analysis piece looks at the troubling rise in executions, particularly of foreign nationals, convicted of drug-related offences.
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🚨 The number of executions carried out by #SaudiArabia's authorities since King Salman took the throne in January 2015 has now exceeded 2,000.
Read our joint statement with 35+ NGOs on this alarming escalation.
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Five years this month since he was sentenced in #SaudiArabia and 'disappeared' since his appeal hearing the same week as #NUFC takeover, we are now asking "WHERE IS SADHAN?" and will be writing to the Foreign Office about his case buff.ly/gFvES22
Blogger and Wikipedian Osama Khalid is a well-known activist for internet freedom in Saudi Arabia.
Read our new briefing with the Centre for Applied Human Rights about his brave activism in support of digital freedoms, for which he is serving a 14-year prison term.
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✍️ Sign the petition: Kuwaiti-American journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin is detained in Kuwait under new security and fake news laws.
Demand Kuwaiti authorities immediately and unconditionally release him. ⤵️
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#freeahmed #FreeAhmedEldin
Today marks 12 years since the arrest of Saudi human rights defender Waleed Abu al-Khair.
He remains in prison today, serving a 15-year sentence for his peaceful activism.
Join us in calling on #SaudiArabia's authorities to #FreeWaleed now.
Joint Action❗️ #SaudiArabia: NGOs call for immediate release of Saudi Wikipedian Osama Khalid, whose 14-year sentence was upheld recently
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Saudi blogger and @wikipedia.org administrator Osama Khalid, serving a 14-year prison term for his online activism, recently saw his sentence upheld.
With @york.ac.uk's Centre for Applied Human Rights and several NGOs, we're calling for his immediate release.
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🚩 Saudi Arabia’s alarming use of the death penalty after Ramadan continues.
Yesterday, seven people were executed for non-violent drug offences — five Saudi nationals and two Jordanians.
Saudi authorities must urgently implement a moratorium on executions.
His case exposes the arbitrary detention practices, harsh prison conditions, and vast scale of political imprisonment in Saudi Arabia.
Among those detained with him was French national Amr Abdelfattah (who remains detained), and others punished for exercising their basic rights.
We’re launching a new “Testimony” series, which highlights personal accounts of abuses experienced by individuals in Saudi Arabia, now living abroad.
Our first piece examines a Luxembourgish national who endured 10 months of imprisonment without charge.
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Taken together, these cases indicate continued use of the death penalty as a political tool against Saudi Arabia’s Shi’a minority, amid what appears to be an intensifying crackdown in the context of heightened regional tensions.
Also executed on the same day, in connection with the same case, was his uncle, Mustafa al-Subaiti.
These executions come just days after the 1 April execution of businessman Saud al-Faraj on similar charges linked to his participation in protests in 2011.
His execution marks the third known execution of a child offender in Saudi Arabia in less than eight months and heightens concerns for other child offenders at imminent risk of execution.
Yesterday Saudi Arabia's authorities executed Ali al-Subaiti, a young man convicted following a grossly unfair trial of “terrorist” crimes allegedly committed when he was a minor (from as young as 12), in blatant disregard of international human rights law.
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During his detention, Ali al-Subaiti was held in solitary confinement for more than eight months, during which he was subjected to torture and denied contact with his family or access to a lawyer.
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Today Saudi authorities executed relatives Ali al-Subaiti (pictured right) and Mustafa al-Subaiti (pictured left), following grossly unfair trials.
Arrested in 2017, among the charges against Ali al-Subaiti included taking part in a protest in 2011 when he was only 12 years old.
The #Saudi authorities’ execution spree post-Ramadan continues, with 11 individuals killed since 29 March alone.
This brings the total number executed in 2026 to 51, with 60% (31) for drug-related crimes.
Nine years ago, Saudi youth Youssef al-Manasef was brutally arrested.
He was tortured and later sentenced to death for alleged protest-related "crimes" that took place when he was as young as 15.
He remains at imminent risk of execution, along with other child defendants.
Today marks five years since humanitarian worker Abdulrahman al-Sadhan was sentenced to 20 years in jail for peaceful online activism.
He has been disappeared and denied any family contact since October 2021.
Join us in calling on #SaudiArabia's authorities to #FreeSadhan now.
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📢 18 MEPs have sent a letter to the Bulgarian government expressing concern over the situation of Saudi activist Abdulrahman al-Khalidi, now in his fifth year of administrative detention in Bulgaria and facing the threat of deportation to #SaudiArabia.
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Today Saudi authorities executed businessman Saud al-Faraj on vague "terrorism" charges, over his participation in protests in 2011.
In 2024 the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention issued an opinion finding his detention to be arbitrary and calling for his immediate release.
Many women sentenced to death are survivors of long-term sexual or domestic abuse, yet these histories are rarely introduced in court or treated as mitigating factors during sentencing.
In Saudi Arabia, this pattern is particularly evident among migrant domestic workers.
Our latest report examines the Saudi authorities’ use of the death penalty through a gendered lens.
It shows how women in Saudi Arabia—especially foreign women—face overlapping forms of discrimination, rights violations, and structural barriers at every stage of the process.
Our new report focuses on women executed or on death row in #SaudiArabia over recent years.
It explores the multiple injustices – relating to gender, citizenship and economic status – that have resulted in their facing capital punishment
Read it here:
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Executions have resumed in #SaudiArabia following a pause during Ramadan, with three foreign nationals executed yesterday alone.
42 individuals have now been executed in 2026, the majority for drug-related crimes.
Saudi authorities must implement a moratorium on executions now.
Eid is a time for family and compassion.
However, in Saudi Arabia, many families remain torn apart due to arbitrary detentions and travel bans.
In light of Eid, Saudi authorities should release prisoners of conscience, and lift all travel bans.
