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Monitoring & Documentation

Monitoring & Documentation Last inhabitants of Al-Khuraiba village evicted to make way for Neom
The last remaining inhabitants of Al-Khuraiba village have been forced out of their home at gunpoint to make way for the gigantic Neom project being developed by the Saudi authorities.
2025-06-23
Monitoring & Documentation NGOs voice fears for hundreds of foreign nationals at risk of imminent execution in Saudi Arabia
We are gravely fearful for the lives of hundreds of prisoners threatened with imminent execution in Saudi Arabia for non-lethal drug-related offences, including Egyptian, Ethiopian and Somali nationals.
2025-06-17
Monitoring & Documentation Saudi journalist’s execution highlights use of death penalty to eliminate dissent
A Saudi journalist, Turki al-Jasser, has unexpectedly been executed after seven years of enforced disappearance, on vague charges of terrorism, treason and endangering national security.
2025-06-16
Monitoring & Documentation Sporadic prisoner releases in Saudi Arabia continue
ALQST welcomes the release of several more prisoners of conscience in Saudi Arabia, seeing this as a positive trend but insufficient.
2025-06-05

Advocacy & Campaigns

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
Advocacy & Campaigns UK parliamentarians urge Foreign Secretary to advocate for al-Otaibi sisters in Saudi Arabia
A cross-party group of 10 UK parliamentarians has written to Foreign Secretary urging the UK government to use all available diplomatic tools to address the cases of Saudi sisters Manahel and Maryam al-Otaibi.
2025-05-20
Advocacy & Campaigns ALQST joins World Coalition Against the Death Penalty
ALQST for Human Rights is pleased to announce that it has become an official member of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty (WCADP).
2025-04-17

Reports

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
Reports Submission to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Report submitted to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in the context of the periodic review of Saudi Arabia
2024-11-22
Reports Submission to the CEDAW Committee in advance of Saudi Arabia's fifth periodic review
Report submitted to the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women and Girls (CEDAW) in the context of the fifth periodic review of Saudi Arabia.
2024-09-19

ALQST In The Media

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...
The Guardian
Sportswashing
2023-09-06

‘Fans have power’ –Newcastle faithful urged to speak up against Saudi regime

Lina al-Hathloul told an audience of around two dozen that challenging the Saudi regime over human rights abuses “can bring change” and it is possible...
NPR
Death penalty
2023-08-29

A Saudi man is sentenced to death after his tweets criticizing country's leadership

LINA AL HATHLOUL: Well, I think the message is clear, is you are not safe whatever you do, whoever you are. And you have to just muzzle yourself.
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