HRW: Saudi Prosecution Seeks Death Penalty for Female Activist

Saudi Arabia’s Public Prosecution is seeking the death penalty against five Eastern Province activists, including female ...

HRW: Prominent Saudi Women Activists Arrested

Saudi authorities have arrested the internationally recognized women’s rights activist Samar Badawi and an Eastern Province activist, Nassima ...

Reuters: Prominent Saudi women’s rights activist detained as driving ban lifted

Reuters: Saudi Arabia has detained prominent women’s rights advocate Hatoon al-Fassi, widening a crackdown that ...

Reuters: Saudi Arabia arrests prominent cleric Safar al-Hawali: activists

Saudi Arabia has detained influential religious scholar Safar al-Hawali and three of his sons, activists ...

HRW: Saudi Arabia: Unrelenting Crackdown on Activists- 2 New Arrests of Women’s Rights Advocates; Others Banned from Travel

Saudi authorities have arrested two more women’s rights activists in recent days in what appears ...

HRW:Saudi Arabia: 2 New Arrests of Activists Crackdown Clouds Upcoming End of Driving Ban

Saudi authorities have arrested at least two more human rights activists since May 15, 2018, ...

HRW: Saudi Arabia: Growing Crackdown on Women’s Rights Activists

Saudi authorities have accused seven recently detained women’s rights activists and others associated with the ...

HRW: Saudi Arabia: Thousands Held Arbitrarily Dramatic Increase in Detention Without Trial

Saudi Arabia is detaining thousands of people for more than six months, in some cases ...

Meeting with the Australian Former Ambassador in Riyadh

On Monday, 30 April 2018, a delegation from the Gulf Institute for Democracy and Human ...

Human Rights Watch: Saudi Arabia: Long Prison Terms for Rights Activists

Saudi Arabia’s Specialized Criminal Court convicted two Saudi human rights activists on January 25, 2018, ...