Saudi Arabia

Human rights groups, football supporters, worker organisations express “deep concern” at global law firm’s flawed World Cup 2034 assessment

  • Saudi Arabia
  • Saudi Arabia
  • 28/10/2024

A flawed human rights assessment of Saudi Arabia’s FIFA 2034 World Cup bid by AS&H Clifford Chance - part of the global partnership of London-based law firm

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Release unlawfully detained cartoonist Mohammed Al-Hazzaa

  • Saudi Arabia
  • Saudi Arabia
  • 24/10/2024

The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) expresses serious concern over the recent news of the sentencing of Saudi cartoonist Mohammed Al-Hazzaa Al-Ghamdi to 23 years in

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Update: Manahel Al-Otaibi continues to be subjected to violence in prison

  • Saudi Arabia
  • Saudi Arabia
  • 14/10/2024

The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) has received disturbing news about further attacks against Saudi women’s rights activist Manahel Al-Otaibi in prison. On 09

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Al-Ghamdi brothers sentenced to 30 and 15 years in prison

  • Saudi Arabia
  • Saudi Arabia
  • 9/10/2024

The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) has previously reported on the shocking news of a death sentence issued by the Saudi Specialised Criminal Court (SCC) on 10 July

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Release prisoners of conscience detained since September 2017

  • Saudi Arabia
  • Saudi Arabia
  • 23/09/2024

In September 2017, Saudi authorities launched one of the biggest mass arrests against religious scholars, political activists, journalists, academic scholars, and

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Release and end persecution of prominent lawyer and human rights defender Waleed Abu Al-Khair

  • Saudi Arabia
  • Saudi Arabia
  • 18/09/2024

The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) is following with great concern the medical neglect and physical abuse that prominent Saudi lawyer and human rights

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Saudi Arabia must free detainees jailed for their online expression ahead of Internet Governance Forum

  • Saudi Arabia
  • Saudi Arabia
  • 9/09/2024

Saudi Arabia must free all individuals arbitrarily detained solely for their online expression ahead of hosting the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in

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End the arbitrary detention of the prominent human rights defender Issa Al-Nukhaifi

  • Saudi Arabia
  • Saudi Arabia
  • 18/08/2024

The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) has received reports of several hunger strikes undertaken by human rights defender Issa Al-Nukhaifi in the last few

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End the arbitrary detention of prominent human rights defender Dr. Mohammed Al-Qahtani

  • Saudi Arabia
  • Saudi Arabia
  • 14/08/2024

The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) reiterates its concerns about the mistreatment of detained human rights defender Dr. Mohammed Fahad Al-Qahtani, who

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