ALQST for Human Rights

📢 Our new briefing highlights how #SaudiArabia's authorities are arbitrarily barring increasing numbers of citizens from leaving the country through the use of unlawful travel bans. This punitive practice has a devastating human impact. ➡️ alqst.org/en/post/alqst-…

Saudi Arabia’s authorities are arbitrarily barring increasing numbers of Saudi citizens from leaving the country through the use of travel bans. Read more in our new briefing: alqst.org/en/post/assaul…

The UK must overhaul its response to transnational repression. In evidence submitted to @HumanRightsCtte, @fairsqprojects, @BirdBahrain_ and ALQST urged the UK to act consistently, regardless of ties with perpetrating states like #SaudiArabia. alqst.org/en/post/uk-mus…

Saudi authorities are increasingly imposing travel bans on activists and families—a new tactic to silence dissent. Read @tom_levitt’s @guardian piece, with comments from @LinaAlhathloul, sister of Loujain under travel ban, and links to our briefing. theguardian.com/global-develop…

Manahel al-Otaibi’s trial hearing yesterday lasted only minutes, with the next set for Thursday 21 August. ALQST once again urges diplomats to request access to the trial. Add your name to the petition calling for her release: ✒️ globalcitizen.org/en/action/rele… #FreeManahel

Over two years since his sentence expired, human rights defender and #ACPRA co-founder Mohammed al-Bejadi remains arbitrarily detained. His case highlights a troubling trend in #SaudiArabia where prisoners of conscience are held beyond their sentences. alqst.org/en/post/releas…

Today is Abdullah al-Huwaiti’s 23rd birthday. He remains detained and at imminent risk of execution for crimes allegedly committed when he was only 14. His trial proceedings were marred by numerous violations, including relying on confessions allegedly extracted under torture.

While opening up to western tourists, celebrities, and businesses, Saudi authorities are increasingly barring citizens from leaving the country, through the use of travel bans. These measures exact a heavy human toll and reinforce a climate of fear. ➡️ alqst.org/en/post/assaul…

📅 The next hearing in the retrial of Manahel al-Otaibi — a fitness instructor sentenced by #Saudi authorities to 11 years for her peaceful activism — has been postponed to Tuesday 22 July, at the SCC in Riyadh. ALQST encourages diplomats to request access to the trial.

Five years after their arrest, ten members of Nubian civic groups in #SaudiArabia remain arbitrarily detained on long prison terms for staging a peaceful event. We call for their immediate release. alqst.org/en/post/ten-nu…

🕊️ Saudi human rights defender and @acprahr co-founder Abdulaziz al-Shubaily has been released after completing an eight-year prison term on charges related to his activism. Although freed from prison, he now faces a travel ban of the same length. ➡️ alqst.org/en/politicalpr…

Read this latest article on #SaudiArabia's #Neom project, featuring coverage of our recent documentation about the last inhabitants of Al-Khuraiba village being forcibly evicted to make way it. newcivilengineer.com/latest/neom-ci…

🕊️ Academic Adel Banaima has been released after almost eight years of arbitrary imprisonment, during he was subjected to numerous violations. He was arrested in September 2017 during a crackdown on dissent. #SaudiArabia

Nine years since his arrest, cleric Mohammad al-Habib remains unjustly imprisoned, serving two prison sentences totalling 12 years on charges linked to his defence of the rights of #SaudiArabia’s Shi’a community. Saudi authorities must release him now. ➡️alqst.org/en/politicalpr…

#Saudi authorities are still sentencing juveniles to death, despite international law and its own promises. Torture, coerced confessions, and unfair trials continue — yet reforms remain empty words. Urge Saudi authorities to end this injustice: globalcitizen.org/en/action/saud…