Defenders Database

Raheleh Ahmadi

• Iran
• Tehran

• Female

• Woman human rights defender

• Arbitrary arrest and detention
• Judicial harassment
• Sentenced

Rahmah Hujairah

• Yemen
• Sanaa

• Female

• Journalist

• Defamation

Raif Badawi

• Saudi Arabia
• Al-Khobar

• Male

• Blogger
• Online activist
• Poet

• Arbitrary arrest and detention
• Judicial harassment
• Physical Assault
• Sentenced
• Travel ban
• Trumped up charges
• Unfair trial

Rakan Al-Asiri

• Saudi Arabia

• Male

• Arbitrary arrest and detention
• No family visits and/or calls
• Targeted
• Unfair and poor prison conditions
• Unfair trial

Rakan Nawaf

• Kuwait
• Taimaa

• Male

Rami Al-Razzouk

• Syria
• Deir ez-Zor

• Male

• Activist
• Journalist
• News Director

• Enforced disappearance
• Incommunicado detention
• Kidnapped
• Targeted
• Tortured
• Undisclosed location

Rana Al-Saadoun

• Kuwait
• Kuwait

• Female

• Woman human rights defender

• Travel ban
• Interrogation
• Trumped up charges
• Judicial harassment
• Sentenced
• Arrested

Rania Al-Assal

• Egypt, Saudi Arabia

• Female

• Activist
• Human rights defender
• Journalist

• Arrested
• Incommunicado detention

Rasha Abdullah Al-Harazi

• Yemen
• Aden

• Female

• Journalist

• Murdered
• Targeted