Saudi Arabia’s escalating use of the death penalty over the past decade has consistently disadvantaged women, particularly migrant domestic workers, ESOHR and ALQST said today.

This report examines Saudi Arabia’s use of the death penalty through a gendered and intersectional lens, with particular attention to migrant women.

ALQST is pleased to announce that Maryam Aldossari, Saudi academic and Member of the Board of Trustees of ALQST, will take up the position of Acting Director from October 2026 for a period of six mont...

The letter alleges the Fifa president ‘has, at a minimum, abused his power, violated his duty of political neutrality, and violated his duty of loyalty in his efforts to ingratiate himself’ with Donal...

As Saudi Arabia steps up its “Visit Saudi” campaign, marketing itself as an emerging tourist destination, ALQST today issued a new travel advisory with essential background information for potential v...

College of Policing held over a dozen trainings for police from Saudi Arabia and Egypt, designated by the Foreign Office as countries of concern

ALQST notes the stark contrast between the event’s stated aim of “shaping conversations around the world” and the kingdom’s relentless clampdown on free speech for its own population.

ALQST is concerned to learn that Saudi Arabia’s Public Prosecution has called for Islamic scholar Abdulaziz al-Tarifi, currently being held in solitary confinement in Al-Ha’ir Prison, to be sentenced ...

EL PAÍS contacta con dos reclusos que esperan en una prisión del país del Golfo y que temen ser los próximos en una cadena de ajusticiamientos denunciada por organizaciones de derechos humanos por gra...

YouTube video by ALQST القسط

X has become the latest social media platform to comply with requests from Saudi Arabia’s authorities to block scores of human rights and political accounts from reaching audiences inside the country.

Three Colombian engineers have been detained and held incommunicado in Saudi Arabia since early 2026, raising serious concerns for their health and wellbeing.

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 t...

Release Osama Khalid from Arbitrary Detention

During the 62nd Session of the UN Human Rights Council, ALQST and the Gulf Centre for Human Rights delivered a joint oral statement highlighting urgent human rights concerns in Saudi Arabia and the re...