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Monitoring & Documentation

Monitoring & Documentation Still Not Free: ALQST’s 2025 report exposes the persistence of human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia
ALQST’s Annual Report for 2025, published today, confirms that behind the glittering façade of today’s Saudi Arabia major human rights concerns persist.
2026-02-02
Monitoring & Documentation Analysis: Understanding the recent wave of prisoner releases in Saudi Arabia
After years of resisting widespread calls to release prisoners of conscience in Saudi Arabia, the authorities began, in late 2024, to release dozens of such individuals from prison.
2026-01-23
Monitoring & Documentation Highest execution toll ever recorded in Saudi Arabia: at least 356 individuals executed in 2025
Saudi Arabia’s escalating use of the death penalty reached horrifying new levels in 2025. According to data from the official Saudi Press Agency, the authorities executed at least 356 people in 2025.
2026-01-09
Monitoring & Documentation French national held incommunicado in Saudi Arabia
A French national arrested more than a year ago for not having a valid permit for the Hajj should have a fair trial and attention for his health needs, ALQST for Human Rights and Human Rights Watch said today.
2025-12-09

Advocacy & Campaigns

Advocacy & Campaigns Global coalition urges FIFA to act on mounting human rights risks ahead of 2034 World Cup in Saudi Arabia
A coalition of 15 rights NGOs, trade unions, fan groups, and organisations representing migrant workers has issued an urgent warning over the escalating human rights risks linked to the 2034 FIFA World Cup.
2025-12-11
Advocacy & Campaigns Joint Statement: US: Prioritise rights during Saudi leader’s visit
The United States government, including Congress, should address Saudi Arabia’s human rights abuses during Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s expected visit to Washington on 18 November 2025.
2025-11-11
Advocacy & Campaigns 60th session of the UN Human Rights Council: ALQST and partners highlight ongoing serious rights concerns in Saudi Arabia
This September 2025, ALQST for Human Rights participated in the 60th Session of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC60) in Geneva.
2025-10-03
Advocacy & Campaigns 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.
2025-09-30

Reports

Reports Still Not Free: Human Rights in Saudi Arabia in 2025
ALQST’s latest annual report documents the human rights situation in Saudi Arabia in 2025.
2026-02-02
Reports The Saudi Human Rights Commission: 20 years of whitewashing the Kingdom’s human rights record
This report presents new, publicly available, evidence that demonstrate the continuing role of this institution in covering up human rights violations, 20 years on from its establishment. 
2025-09-12
Reports Input submitted to the United Nations Independent Expert on the enjoyment of all human rights by older persons
This input is submitted by ALQST to the UN Independent Expert on the enjoyment of all human rights by older persons, following a call for input ahead of the UN Expert’s country visit to Saudi Arabia.
2025-09-05
Reports Assault on Freedom of Movement: The Use of Arbitrary Travel Bans in Saudi Arabia
A new briefing 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.
2025-07-16

ALQST In The Media

Deutsche Welle (DW)
Vision 2030
2026-02-02

Saudi Arabia reshapes Vision 2030 around new priorities

Julia Legner, Executive Director of the London-based human rights watchdog ALQST, told DW that "these oversized, top-down initiatives, driven by the P...
Middle East Eye
Death penalty
2025-10-21

‘Cruellest violation’: Saudi Arabia executes second child offender in two months

“From the moment of his arrest over a decade ago to his grossly unfair and secretive trial, Derazi endured a relentless pattern of abuse at the hands...
New Civil Engineer
Neom
2025-10-08

Saudi authorities accused of attempted displacement of community impacted by Neom port

Al-Muwaila is a village in the south of Tabuk province on the Red Sea coast, and Saudi-focused human rights group ALQST has claimed that its residents...
Sports Pro
Sport
2025-10-06

Saudi Arabia sports sponsorship: Fifa, F1 and ICC challenged over Aramco deals

Maryam Aldossari, ALQST board member and senior lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London, said: “Saudi Aramco provides a critical source of re...
Middle East Eye
Freedom of expression
2025-09-25

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

Nadyeen Abdulaziz, Alqst's monitoring and advocacy officer, said: "Abdelfattah’s harsh treatment exposes the stark contrast between Saudi Arabia’s ref...
New Civil Engineer
Neom
2025-07-11

Civils progress update and last indigenous people forcibly evicted

On 23 June 2025, the Saudi Arabia-focused human rights organisation Alqst reported that “the last remaining inhabitants of Al-Khuraiba village have be...
The Guardian
Women's rights
2025-05-28

Revealed: Saudi Arabia’s secretive rehabilitation ‘prisons’ for disobedient women

The human rights group ALQST says Dar al-Reaya facilities are notorious within Saudi Arabia as state tools for enforcing gender norms and “stand in st...
BBC
Sport
2025-02-19

Council pressed to act over Saudi 'sportswashing'

Ms Legner said the council had shown "sympathy and solidarity", but that its representatives declined to have a picture taken and were "not very forth...
BBC
Salma al-Shehab
2025-02-10

Saudi PhD student freed after being jailed over posts, activists say

Shehab's release was first reported by ALQST, a UK-based Saudi rights group, which said she had been subjected to "four years of arbitrary imprisonmen...
Middle East Eye
Digital rights
2024-12-20

Why did online footage of a 'historic' UN panel in Riyadh disappear?

'How can we discuss internet governance if freedom of expression and security are undermined at the very forums meant to uphold them?' Lina Hathloul,...
France 24
Digital rights
2024-12-18

Activist tells Saudi-hosted UN forum of 'silencing' of dissent

"For today, an empty chair will have to represent my voice -- a stark symbol of the silencing faced by so many of us," said Hathloul, head of communic...
Deutsche Welle (DW)
Sportswashing
2024-12-11

World Cup 2034: Saudi Arabia's human rights failures ignored

Lina al-Hathloul, the head of monitoring and advocacy at ALQST, a Saudi human rights organization, says that the world should not be distracted by a m...
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