Advocacy / Saudi Arabia
Over 200 executions in nine months: NGOs condemn escalating use of the death penalty in Saudi Arabia
On the World Day Against Death Penalty, MENA Rights group joined partner NGOs in condemning the soaring number of executions in Saudi Arabia and urging Saudi authorities to implement a moratorium on the death penalty.
UN Secretary-General’s 2024 report highlights reprisals against human rights defenders in the MENA
MENA Rights Group provides a summary of the UNSG's main concerns over reprisals against human rights defenders in the MENA region, particularly in Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Libya, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Yemen.
UN experts call for release of Saudi businessman sentenced to death
Following a request for Opinion filed by MENA Rights Group and the European Saudi Organisation for Human Rights (ESOHR), the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (UNWGAD) found that the detention of a Saudi businessman who participated in protests in the Qatif region of Saudi Arabia, violates international human rights law and qualifies as “arbitrary”.
Partners of Saudi Arabia should send observers to upcoming trial hearings of Salma al-Shehab and Nourah al-Qahtani
MENA Rights Group joins NGOs in calling on partners of Saudi Arabia to monitor the ongoing trial of Salma al-Shehab and Nourah al-Qahtani, who are sentenced to 27 and 35 years in prison for their social media activity.
Saudi Arabia must free detainees jailed for their online expression ahead of Internet Governance Forum
MENA Rights Group joins 30+ NGOS in calling on Saudi authorities to immediately free those arbitrarily detained ahead of the Internet Governance Forum which will take place in Riyadh from 15 to 19 December 2024.
International access will be needed to follow up on mixed Saudi response to UPR recommendations
Following Saudi Arabia's response to recommendations made during its Universal Periodic Review, a coalition of 7 human rights organisations urge Saudi authorities to grant independent international observers and NGOs access to the country, and that they extend invitations to, and accept visits from, UN special procedures mandate holders.
Crackdown on popular Saudi influencers and creators, with harsh sentence for hit producer
With CSO partners, MENA Rights Group call for the release of all those unjustly imprisoned in Saudi Arabia for their opinions and beliefs, and for an end to the imposition of travel bans, which are illegal in both international and domestic Saudi law.
Saudi Arabia: NGOs renew call for lifting of the illegal travel ban on women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul
MENA Rights Group joins 13 civil society organisations in calling on Saudi Arabia’s authorities to immediately lift the illegal travel ban imposed on woman human rights defender Loujain al-Hathloul. A court-imposed ban on her travelling abroad expired six months ago today, but since then she has been under an arbitrary travel ban with no expiry date, in violation of both international human rights law and the kingdom’s own legislation.
Missing prisoner Mohammed al-Qahtani’s family reject Saudi Human Rights Commission cover-up
MENA Rights Group and ALQST for Human Rights call on Saudi authorities to immediately disclose Mohammed al-Qahtani’s whereabouts and to release him, and to stop using the Saudi Human Rights Commission as cover for its rights violations.
Escalating concerns over the lives of minors threatened with death in Saudi Arabia
MENA Rights Group joins 30 organizations in expressing grave concerns regarding the death sentence and imminent executions of young men in Saudi Arabia for acts they committed as minors.