Saudi Arabia

Fatima Al-Nassif

  • Saudi Arabia
  • Saudi Arabia
  • 10/05/2025

Fatima Al-Nassif is a Saudi nurse and human rights activist from Qatif who has been subjected to arbitrary detention and ill-treatment by Saudi authorities. On 5

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Rania Al-Assal

  • Saudi Arabia
  • Egypt
  • Saudi Arabia
  • 10/05/2025

Rania Al-Assal is an Egyptian journalist and human rights activist known for her outspoken criticism of Saudi Arabia's military actions in Yemen and Israel's occupation

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NGOs call for immediate release of ​Nourah Al-Qahtani, in solitary confinement and deteriorating health

  • Saudi Arabia
  • Saudi Arabia
  • 8/05/2025

We, the undersigned civil society organisations, are extremely concerned that Nourah bint Saeed al-Qahtani has been held in solitary confinement in Saudi Arabia since

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Mohammed Al-Hazzaa

  • Saudi Arabia
  • Saudi Arabia
  • 2/05/2025

Mohammed Ahmad Eid Al-Hazzaa Al-Ghamdi, known professionally as Al-Hazzaa, is a Saudi cartoonist who has been imprisoned since February 2018 for his satirical work.

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Manahel Al-Otaibi

  • Saudi Arabia
  • Saudi Arabia
  • 29/04/2025

Manahel Al-Otaibi is a fitness instructor and feminist currently detained in Saudi Arabia. Al-Otaibi was arrested on 16 November 2022, then forcibly disappeared on 05

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Abdulrahman Al-Khalidi

  • Saudi Arabia
  • Saudi Arabia
  • 24/04/2025

Abdulrahman Al-Khalidi is a Saudi human rights defender who has spent over a decade advocating for prisoners' rights and participating in protests supporting Saudi

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Human Rights in the Middle East Region: 2024 Annual Report of the Gulf Centre for Human Rights

  • Saudi Arabia
  • Bahrain
  • Iran
  • Iraq
  • Jordan
  • Kuwait
  • Lebanon
  • MENA
  • Oman
  • Qatar
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Syria
  • UAE
  • Yemen
  • 24/03/2025

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The main objective of the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) is to foster a vibrant and safe civic space in which human rights defenders (HRDs)

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Saudi activist at risk of deportation from Bulgaria

  • Saudi Arabia
  • Saudi Arabia
  • 10/03/2025

Sofia should allow resettlement to third country Bulgarian authorities should suspend any plans to deport Saudi human rights defender Abdulrahman Al-Khalidi to Saudi

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Salma Al-Shehab released after four years in prison, among hundreds of prisoners for posts on X

  • Saudi Arabia
  • Saudi Arabia
  • 18/02/2025

Last week, the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) learned that hundreds of people were recently released from prison in Saudi Arabia after completing part of their

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