• Human Rights in Saudi Arabia
    Saudi Arabia has stepped up arrests and trials of peaceful dissidents, and responded with force to demonstrations by citizens. Authorities continue to suppress or fail to protect the rights of 9 million Saudi women and girls and 9 million foreign workers. As in past years, thousands of people have received unfair trials or been subject to arbitrary detention, and public and other executions continue. Human rights defenders and others regularly face trial for peaceful expression or assembly, or for demanding political and human rights reforms.
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  • Saudi Arabia: Cleric who Backed Protests on Trial for His Life
    May 10, 2013
    Saudi authorities should ensure a fair trial for the Shia cleric Nimr al-Nimr.
  • On Olympic Anniversary, End Hurdles for Saudi Women
    May 10, 2013
    The approaching one-year anniversary of the London Olympics is a reminder that change is possible, even in countries that have long resisted it.
  • Saudi Arabia: Let All Girls Play Sports
    May 7, 2013
    Saudi Arabia should allow all girls in the kingdom, including public school students, to play sports in school.
  • Saudi Arabia: New Rights Group Facing Harassment
    May 7, 2013
    Four Saudi activists are under investigation after forming a human rights group on April 3, 2013, and could face prosecution for “establishing an illegal organization." Saudi authorities should immediately cease harassing the four founding members of the group, the Union for Human Rights (UHR), and give it an operating license.
  • Saudi Arabia: End Prosecution of Human Rights Lawyer
    Apr 19, 2013
    Saudi authorities should immediately halt the 18-month prosecution of a Jeddah-based human rights lawyer.
  • Saudi Arabia: Free Detainee in ‘Eye-for-an-Eye’ Case
    Apr 13, 2013
    Judicial authorities in Saudi Arabia should take urgent steps to end the indefinite detention of a man who can’t raise the money to compensate an attack victim. In addition to the criminal sentence, he also faced a Qisas, or “equal retaliation” judgment, which under Saudi law stipulates a direct “eye-for-an-eye” physical punishment or payment of compensation to the victim.
  • Saudi Arabia: Huge Obstacles for First Woman Lawyer
    Apr 12, 2013
    Saudi authorities need to lift the many obstacles facing the first woman to train as a lawyer in Saudi Arabia before she can enter the profession on an equal basis with men.
  • Saudi Arabia: Release Jailed Rights Activists
    Mar 11, 2013
    The harsh sentences against leading Saudi rights advocates and an order to shutter a civil and political rights group are major setbacks for rights in Saudi Arabia. Saudi authorities should release and drop charges against the two leading human rights activists sentenced to long prison terms after a Specialized Criminal Court convicted them on politically-motivated charges on Saturday.
  • Saudi Arabia: Disclose Whereabouts of Jordanian Activist
    Mar 8, 2013
    Saudi authorities should immediately disclose the whereabouts and condition of the Jordanian activist Khaled al-Natour, and free him or charge him with a recognizable criminal offense.
  • Letter to the Saudi Interior Ministry Regarding Khaled al-Natour
    Mar 8, 2013
    We write to request information on the whereabouts and condition of Khaled al-Natour, 27, a Jordanian citizen whom Saudi authorities detained at King Khaled International Airport in Riyadh on January 6, 2013. According to information we have received, he has been held incommunicado since that date and authorities have not released any information regarding the reasons for his arrest or his whereabouts. We call on you to release him without delay or for the appropriate authorities to charge him before a court of law if there is evidence that he is responsible for any criminal offense.
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