Saudi Arabia
Gulf · Arabian Peninsula
Documenting arbitrary detention, executions and transnational repression, and supporting Saudi defenders, women’s rights activists and journalists at risk.
Our position on Saudi Arabia
We call for the immediate release of women human rights defenders, activists and dissidents arbitrarily detained in Saudi Arabia, a halt to executions, accountability for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, and an end to transnational repression targeting Saudis abroad.
HuMENA
Areas of work
What we work on in Saudi Arabia.
Civic Space & Freedoms
LatestMeta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia and the UAE
Protection of Defenders
LatestThe Saudi Human Rights Commission: 20 years of whitewashing the Kingdom’s human rights record
Digital Rights & Civic Tech
Inclusive Governance & Justice
LatestSaudi Arabia Surpasses 2,000 Executions Under King Salman
Diaspora & Exile Engagement
LatestBulgaria: Saudi activist at risk of deportation
Chronicle
HuMENA's work in Saudi Arabia
Our statements, letters and reports on Saudi Arabia, newest first.
May 2026
JOINT STATEMENTS
Sep 2025
JOINT STATEMENTS
Aug 2025
JOINT STATEMENTS
May 2025
JOINT STATEMENTS
May 2025
JOINT STATEMENTS
Feb 2025
JOINT STATEMENTS
Jan 2025
LETTER
Dec 2024
JOINT STATEMENTS
Mar 2024
JOINT STATEMENTS
Feb 2024
PRESS RELEASES
Nov 2023
JOINT STATEMENTS
May 2023
JOINT STATEMENTS
Apr 2023
JOINT STATEMENTS
At the international level
Where this work meets the institutions.
UN HRC
Joint statements on detained defenders
UN Special Procedures
Communications on multiple cases
Universal Jurisdiction
Support to ongoing accountability efforts
Defenders
Cases we follow.
Human rights defenders, journalists and lawyers whose cases in Saudi Arabia we follow. Some people we document are not named here, for their safety.
Our publications on defenders.
Joint Statements
As Trump visits Saudi Arabia, groups call for the kingdom to end repression of journalists
13 May 2025
Press Releases
Urgent Call for Action: Bulgaria Should Halt Deportation Proceedings of Saudi Activist Abdulrahman Al-Khalidi
20 Feb 2024
Joint Statements
Civil society urges BIE Member States not to vote for Saudi Arabia to host the World Expo 2030
22 Nov 2023Publications
Reports, statements, and analyses.
Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia and the UAE
Saudi Arabia Surpasses 2,000 Executions Under King Salman
The Saudi Human Rights Commission: 20 years of whitewashing the Kingdom’s human rights record
Saudi Arabia | NGOs call for immediate release of Saudi human rights defender Mohammed al-Bejadi, still held two years after his sentence ended
As Trump visits Saudi Arabia, groups call for the kingdom to end repression of journalists
Saudi Arabia | NGOs call for immediate release of Nourah Al-Qahtani, in solitary confinement and deteriorating health
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