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Saudi Arabia: Repressive Site for Dakar Rally
As Amaury Sport Race Proceeds, Women Activists Sit in Prison
Dakar Rally community must #StandWithSaudiHeroes
The Dakar Rally (formerly known as the Paris-Dakar Rally) is an annual off-road endurance rally organized by the French company Amaury Sport Organisation (A.S.O). In April 2019, it was announced that the upcoming 2020 rally would be held throughout Saudi Arabia. The announcement, which outlined the race route from January 5-17, 2020, also promised a five-year partnership with Saudi Arabia as host.
On the 10th anniversary of the establishment of ACPRA, NGOs jointly call on Saudi authorities to release all detained members
On October 12, 2019, which marks the 10th anniversary of the founding of the Saudi Association for Civil and Political Rights (ACPRA), the undersigned organisations call on Saudi authorities to immediately and unconditionally release all detained ACPRA members.
One year after the gruesome murder of Jamal Khashoggi, NGOs renew their call and demand justice for Jamal
On 2 October 2018, Jamal Khashoggi entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to obtain official documents in order to get married, but he did not make it out alive. He was brutally killed inside the consulate in what the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Dr Agnes Callamard, called a “premeditated extrajudicial killing” for which the state of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is responsible.
Saudi Arabia: Human Rights Council side event highlights practices of arbitrary detention, enforced disappearances and summary executions
On September 19, 2019, during the 42nd session of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva, MENA Rights Group co-organised a side event highlighting the discriminatory practices of arbitrary detention, enforced disappearances and the application of the capital punishment in Saudi Arabia.
#FreeWaleed: 5 years on from his sentencing, join us in calling for the release of Saudi prisoner of conscience Waleed Abu al-Khair
Saudi lawyer Waleed Abu al-Khair is currently five years into a 15-year prison sentence in Saudi Arabia. His crime? Defending human rights.
Rights groups call for establishment of UN monitoring mechanism over human rights situation in Saudi Arabia
In a joint letter to 48 ministries of foreign affairs from all regional groups at the UN, 40 human rights organisations call on states to advance a resolution at the Human Rights Council addressing ongoing human rights violations in Saudi Arabia.
NGOs urge governments to pressure Saudi Arabia to improve rights record following UN review
Following the adoption of Saudi Arabia’s Universal Periodic Review outcome on March 14, MENA Rights Group, Alqst, the Right Livelihood Award Foundation and OMCT called on the international community to maintain pressure on the Saudi government to improve the human rights situation in the country.
Saudi Arabia: Over 50 human rights groups call for immediate release of women’s rights defenders
The following letter was sent to over 30 Ministers of Foreign Affairs of States calling on UN Member States to adopt a resolution at the 40th session of the UN Human Rights Council calling explicitly for the immediate and unconditional release of the detained Saudi women human rights defenders and establishing a monitoring mechanism over the human rights violations in the country. 19 February 2019 Stand up for human rights in Saudi Arabia and demand the immediate and unconditional release of Saudi women human rights defenders Your Excellency,
Saudi Arabia: Human Rights Council Side Event calls for accountability for rights abuses including torture and incommunicado detention of women’s rights defenders
MENA Rights Group hosts its first event at UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, taking the form of a panel discussion on the current human rights situation in Saudi Arabia.