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Monitoring & Documentation

Monitoring & Documentation Execution of Saudi child offender raises fears for others
The execution of Jalal Labbad, a Saudi youth convicted of crimes allegedly committed when he was a minor, finally destroys the authorities’ claims to have ended this violation of international human rights law.
2025-08-22
Monitoring & Documentation NGOs call for immediate release of ​Saudi human rights defender Mohammed al-Bejadi, still held two years after his sentence ended
We, the undersigned organisations, express deep concern over the continued arbitrary detention of the Saudi human rights defender Mohammed al-Bejadi more than two years beyond his sentence.
2025-08-07
Monitoring & Documentation 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.
2025-07-16
Monitoring & Documentation Ten Nubian Egyptians still in Saudi jail five years after arbitrary arrest
Five years on from their arrest in July 2020, ten members of Nubian civic associations in Saudi Arabia remain arbitrarily detained on lengthy prison sentences for staging a peaceful commemoration of the 1973 Oc
2025-07-15

Advocacy & Campaigns

Advocacy & Campaigns UK must overhaul response to transnational repression
Victims of transnational repression (TNR) in the UK may lose trust in the British system to take the threats to them seriously, a Select Committee inquiry has been told.
2025-07-23
Advocacy & Campaigns Joint Statement on the Continued Arbitrary Detention of Lawyer and Human Rights Defender Waleed Abu al-Khair
We, the undersigned organisations, express grave concern regarding the ongoing arbitrary detention of lawyer and human rights defender Waleed Abu al-Khair since April 15, 2014.
2025-07-07
Advocacy & Campaigns ALQST and GCHR deliver oral statement at UN Human Rights Council addressing the execution crisis in Saudi Arabia
On 18 June 2025, during the UN Human Rights Council (HRC)’s 59th Session, ALQST and the Gulf Centre for Human Rights delivered a joint oral statement addressing the execution crisis in Saudi Arabia.
2025-07-04
Advocacy & Campaigns British MPs table Early Day Motion on human rights in Saudi Arabia
A group of British MPs this week tabled an Early Day Motion (EDM) in parliament on human rights in Saudi Arabia, calling on the UK Government to actively raise pressing rights issues with Saudi authorities.
2025-06-12

Reports

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
Reports Through a Saudi Lens: Human Rights in Saudi Arabia in 2024
ALQST’s latest annual report documents the human rights situation in Saudi Arabia in 2024.
2025-02-27
Reports An Open Field for Violations: Saudi Arabia’s 2034 FIFA World Cup bid
ALQST’s briefing unpacks Saudi Arabia’s 2034 FIFA World Cup bid, finding that serious shortcomings in the bid documentation point to a real risk of widescale violations.
2024-12-05

ALQST In The Media

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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...
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...
Guardian
Sportswashing
2024-10-21

Top female footballers urge Fifa to end deal with Saudi ‘nightmare sponsor’

Lina al-Hathloul, head of monitoring and advocacy at ALQST for Human Rights, said: “As long as Saudi Arabia’s authorities fail to genuinely respect wo...
Middle East Eye
Saudi diaspora
2024-08-01

Huge spike in Saudi Arabians seeking asylum since 2013, survey finds

The number of Saudi Arabians "fleeing their country and seeking asylum abroad" has spiked since 2013, according to a first-ever survey of its kind pub...
Dezeen
Neom
2024-06-01

Neom being "built on the blood of Saudis" says ALQST's Lina Alhathloul

"It is a project that is definitely not a priority for the Saudi people, given the current state of existing cities in the country," ALQST head of mon...
BBC
Women's rights
2024-05-01

Manahel al-Otaibi: Saudi women's rights activist jailed for 11 years

ALQST's head of advocacy Lina al-Hathloul said Manahel al-Otaibi's "confidence that she could act with freedom could have been a positive advertisemen...
Forbes
Freedom of expression
2024-03-27

Saudi Soccer Fans Go On Trial For Shia Chants

"While Western fans and sports stars visiting the kingdom may find themselves in a relative bubble, such freedom is not extended to the local populati...
France 24
Death penalty
2023-09-29

Relatives of detained Saudis urge 'ashamed' prince to act on cases

Lina al-Hathloul, head of monitoring and communication for the rights group ALQST, said there should be more transparency when it comes to how existin...
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