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ALQST for Human Rights

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ALQST is an independent, not-for-profit organisation that works to defend human rights in Saudi Arabia. https://alqst.org/en

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ALQST for Human Rights @alqst.bsky.social · Jul 16

📣 Our new briefing highlights how #SaudiArabia's authorities are arbitrarily barring increasing numbers of Saudi citizens from leaving the country through the use of unlawful travel bans.

This punitive practice has a devastating human impact.

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ALQST briefing highlights growing use of arbitrary travel bans in Saudi Arabia

A new briefing from ALQST highlights how Saudi Arabia’s authorities are arbitrarily barring increasing numbers of Saudi citizens from leaving the country through the use of unlawful travel bans.

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ALQST for Human Rights @alqst.bsky.social · 2h

Two more Egyptian nationals were executed yesterday in Saudi Arabia for non-lethal drug-related offences.

This raises grave fears for the lives of Egyptians threatened with imminent execution for such offences, including Mohammed Saad (pictured left) and Essam al-Shazly (pictured left).

ALQST for Human Rights @alqst.bsky.social · 4d

The sudden execution of Saudi journalist Turki al-Jasser in June, after seven years of enforced disappearance, dramatically illustrated how the Saudi authorities weaponise the use of the death penalty as a tool to repress freedom of expression.

#WorldDayAgainstTheDeathPenalty

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ALQST for Human Rights @alqst.bsky.social · 4d

Of the 292 individuals publicly reported as having been executed in Saudi Arabia so far this year (as of 9 October), 195 were executed for drug-related crimes, 151 of whom were foreign nationals from Asian and African countries including Somalia, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Egypt and Afghanistan.

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ALQST for Human Rights @alqst.bsky.social · 4d

Saudi authorities have executed at least 292 people so far in 2025, including four women.

They are on course to exceed last year’s record number of 345 executions, in contradiction of their own commitments to limit the use of the death penalty.

#WorldDayAgainstTheDeathPenalty

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ALQST for Human Rights @alqst.bsky.social · 4d

On #WorldDayAgainstTheDeathPenalty ALQST and 35 NGOs express our horror at the alarming surge in executions in #SaudiArabia.

At least 292 people have been executed in 2025, amid egregious violations of international human rights law.

#NoDeathPenalty

Read more here:
alqst.org/en/post/ngos...

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ALQST for Human Rights @alqst.bsky.social · 5d

Read @newcivilengineer.com.web.brid.gy's
article about the Saudi authorities renewed efforts to displace residents of al-Muwaila village, part of the area planned for #Neom.

Featuring our monitoring and a quote.

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https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/saudi-authorities-accused-of-attempted-displacement-of-community-impacted-by-neom-port-08-10-2025/

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ALQST for Human Rights @alqst.bsky.social · 6d

🚨 Despite completing his prison term over two years ago, veteran Saudi human rights defender and ACPRA co-founder Mohammed al-Bejadi now faces retrial.

His next court hearing is on Monday 27 October.

#FreeAlBejadi

See our previous joint statement:
alqst.org/en/post/rele...

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ALQST for Human Rights @alqst.bsky.social · 6d

Today is Abdullah al-Derazi’s 30th birthday. Arrested in 2014, he was sentenced to death after a grossly unfair trial for alleged crimes during protests aged only 17.

The recent execution of child defendant Jalal Labbad raises grave fears for his life.

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ALQST for Human Rights @alqst.bsky.social · 7d

Human rights activist and ACPRA member Omar al-Saeed, arbitrarily detained in Saudi Arabia since June 2018, is currently being held in solitary confinement.

We call on the Saudi authorities to release him immediately.

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ALQST for Human Rights @alqst.bsky.social · 8d

Today is human rights defender Abdulrahman al-Khalidi's 32nd birthday.

For the fourth birthday in a row, he spends it in degrading conditions in Sofia’s Busmantsi Detention Centre.

He remains at risk of deportation to Saudi Arabia, where he'd risk facing grave abuses.

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ALQST for Human Rights @alqst.bsky.social · 8d

Media figure Muhammad Eid al-Omrani al-Huwaiti (owner of the Huweitat official snapchat account) has been released after five years of arbitrary detention in Saudi Arabia, along with Abdullah Atallah al-Saree'i al-Huwaiti.

They were arrested for opposing their forced displacement for #Neom.

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ALQST for Human Rights @alqst.bsky.social · 11d

ALQST has joined @fairsq.bsky.social and a coalition of human rights and climate NGOs, supported by a number of professional athletes, in challenging FIFA and other sports organisations to justify their sponsorship deals with state-owned Aramco.

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FIFA and International Cricket Council under scrutiny over Saudi Aramco ties in light of UN Human Rights Warning

Six of the world’s biggest sports organisations, including FIFA, the International Cricket Council (ICC) and Formula 1, have been challenged to justify their sponsorship deals with state-owned Saudi A...

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ALQST for Human Rights @alqst.bsky.social · 12d

The Riyadh Comedy Festival taking place coincides today with the seven-year anniversary of the state-sanctioned killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Several comedians not attending have spoken out about the rights abuses in Saudi Arabia. Will participating comedians speak out?

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ALQST for Human Rights @alqst.bsky.social · 12d

Seven years on from Jamal Khashoggi’s state-sponsored murder, justice is still denied.

This failure has emboldened #SaudiArabia’s leaders to keep silencing critics at home and abroad.

Accountability remains vital — for Jamal, and for all victims of repression. #JusticeForJamal

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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 12d

Today marks the seventh anniversary of the Saudi state-sponsored murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

As comedians perform at the Riyadh Comedy Festival, we urge them to publicly call for Saudi authorities to free unjustly detained Saudi dissidents, journalists, and activists.

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Business & Human Rights Resource Centre @business-humanrights.org · 12d

Migrant workers are the backbone of Saudi Arabia’s renewable energy projects.

But our new research shows they are being exploited and dehumanised in the very industry that should symbolise a sustainable future.

Read the full report ➡️ www.business-humanrights.org/en/from-us/b...

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FairSquare @fairsq.bsky.social · 12d

Six of the world’s biggest sports organisations, including FIFA, the International Cricket Council & Formula 1, are being challenged to justify their sponsorship deals with state-owned Saudi Aramco. These partnerships may place them in breach of international human rights standards.

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ALQST for Human Rights @alqst.bsky.social · 14d

The great irony of the Riyadh Comedy Festival currently taking place is that its hosts, while welcoming high-profile international comedians, continue to suppress peaceful free speech and satirical comment among their country’s own citizens.

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Riyadh Comedy Festival no laughing matter in context of gross human rights abuses

The great irony of the Riyadh Comedy Festival currently taking place is that its hosts continue to suppress peaceful free speech and satirical comment among their country’s own citizens.

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ALQST for Human Rights @alqst.bsky.social · 15d

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Un Français détenu depuis plus d'un an en Arabie saoudite est jugé pour des irrégularités de visa

L'homme se rendait dans un lieu de culte musulman, lorsque le gouvernement saoudien l'a arrêté lui reprochant d'être entré avec un faux permis.

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ALQST for Human Rights @alqst.bsky.social · 15d

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«Torturé», «privé d’avocat», un Français est détenu en Arabie Saoudite depuis plus de quinze mois dans le plus grand silence

Arrêté à La Mecque après une simple altercation avec un policier, un ingénieur chercheur est incarcéré depuis juin 2024 et risque vingt-cinq ans de prison. Face à une situation qui s’enlise, sa compag...

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ALQST for Human Rights @alqst.bsky.social · 15d

Depuis juin 2024, un Français est détenu en #ArabieSaoudite : accusations de torture, absence d’avocat, poursuites pour visa.
📌À découvrir dans @libe et @franceinfo

ALQST for Human Rights @alqst.bsky.social · 18d

ALQST and partner NGOs recently published a joint letter condemning the exploitation of Indian expat Ahmed Abdul Majeed by his Saudi employer, the PIF-owned Seera Group.

@business-humanrights.org
invited them to respond, but they have not done so.

➡️ www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-ne...

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Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · 19d

French man held in Saudi Arabia for over a year after Hajj scam . @alqst.bsky.social said Abdelfattah has been tortured repeatedly, including an attack in Dec in which 6 masked guards beat him, handcuffed him& placed him in solitary confinement for a week. www.middleeasteye.net/news/french-...

French man held in Saudi Arabia for over a year after Hajj scam

Rights group says the father of three has been repeatedly tortured in prison and now faces trial in a counter-terrorism court

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ALQST for Human Rights @alqst.bsky.social · 19d

See @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social's
piece on our monitoring of a French man detained in Saudi Arabia after falling victim to a visa scam.

"[his] harsh treatment exposes the stark contrast between Saudi Arabia’s reformist image and its repressive reality."

www.middleeasteye.net/news/french-...

French man held in Saudi Arabia for over a year after Hajj scam

Rights group says the father of three has been repeatedly tortured in prison and now faces trial in a counter-terrorism court

www.middleeasteye.net

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ALQST for Human Rights @alqst.bsky.social · 19d

🚨 A French national has been detained in #SaudiArabia for over a year and subjected to repeated ill-treatment and torture.

He now faces trial, without legal representation, for visa issues arising from a common scam and charges related to free expression.

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French national detained in Saudi Arabia for more than a year tortured and denied right to fair trial

A French national detained in Saudi Arabia for more than a year is now on trial, without legal representation or consular access, for visa irregularities arising from a common scam as well as charges ...

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