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Prominent WHRD Israa Al-Ghomgham spared death penalty sentence
Published at
27.02.2019
Country
Saudi Arabia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- harassment
- censorship
- women
- torture/ill-treatment
- positive CS development
Human Rights Activists receive lengthy jail terms
Published at
08.07.2016
Country
Saudi Arabia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD detained
- refusal of registration

HRDs criminalised for exercising freedoms of association and expression
Published at
09.01.2017
Country
Saudi Arabia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD detained

Human rights organisations continued to call for the suspension of Saudi Arabia from the UN HRC
Published at
09.09.2016
Country
Saudi Arabia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- censorship
- harassment
- travel ban

Human rights defenders jailed and banned from travelling
Published at
17.02.2017
Country
Saudi Arabia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- harassment
- travel ban
- women
- HRD detained

Women activists harassed for participating in #IAmMyOwnGuardian social media campaign
Published at
18.04.2017
Country
Saudi Arabia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- harassment
- censorship
- women
- HRD detained

#IAmMyOwnGuardian activists detained and harassed for defending women's rights
Published at
19.06.2017
Country
Saudi Arabia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- restrictive law
- censorship
- journalist detained
- women
- religious groups
- protestor(s) detained
- intimidation
- harassment
- release of HRDs
- HRD detained
- travel ban
- negative court ruling
- internet restriction
- environmental rights

Saudi authorities execute four men for participating in protests
Published at
10.08.2017
Country
Saudi Arabia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- negative court ruling
- torture/ill-treatment
- release of HRDs

Wave of arrests in Saudia Arabia
Published at
05.10.2017
Country
Saudi Arabia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- women
- religious groups
- minority groups
- positive CS development
- HRD detained
- enforced disappearance
- journalist detained

New anti-terror law used to restrict activities of HRDs, academics and journalists
Published at
28.11.2017
Country
Saudi Arabia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- HRD prosecuted
- restrictive law

Continuous wave of persecution against HRDs and WHRDs
Published at
05.02.2018
Country
Saudi Arabia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD detained
- women
- restrictive law

Saudi authorities' relentless crackdown on WHRDs continues
Published at
19.06.2018
Country
Saudi Arabia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD detained
- women
- HRD prosecuted
- release of HRDs

Saudi authorities detain women human rights defenders in latest crackdown
Published at
29.08.2018
Country
Saudi Arabia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD detained
- protestor(s) detained
- women
- HRD prosecuted

Women’s Rights Defender, Loujain Al-Hathloul, due in court
Published at
12.03.2020
Country
Saudi Arabia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- harassment
- torture/ill-treatment

Severe disconnect between carefully curated international image & suppression of civil society
Published at
30.10.2021
Country
Saudi Arabia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD prosecuted
- release of HRDs

Saudi Arabia continues to detain, harass and torture human rights defenders
Published at
21.01.2021
Country
Saudi Arabia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- harassment
- censorship
- labour rights
- refugees and migrants
- HRD prosecuted

Activists & women human rights defenders continue to face reprisals
Published at
14.08.2020
Country
Saudi Arabia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- HRD detained
- LGBTI

Reports reveal death threats by Saudi officials against UN expert, reprisals against HRDs unabating
Published at
06.04.2021
Country
Saudi Arabia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- release of HRDs
- travel ban
- HRD threatened
- intimidation
- torture/ill-treatment
- HRD prosecuted

CSOs Denounce Recent Intensification in the Persecution of HRDs and Dissenting Voices
Published at
25.08.2021
Country
Saudi Arabia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- harassment
- HRD killing
- negative court ruling

Two activists released despite authorities' complete intolerance of online activism and dissent
Published at
10.05.2022
Country
Saudi Arabia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- women
- negative court ruling
- release of HRDs