السلطات السعودية أعدمت خمسة مهاجرين إثيوبيين في 27 يوليو/تموز 2026 على خلفية جرائم مخدرات لا تشمل القتل ودون مراعاة الأصول القانونية.

Saudi authorities executed five Ethiopian migrants for nonlethal drug-related offenses on July 27, 2026 without due process.

Saudi authorities executed five Ethiopian migrants for nonlethal drug-related offenses on July 27, 2026 without due process.

FairSquare and Human Rights Watch have today sent a joint letter to candidates standing in the upcoming Manchester mayoral election calling on them to publicly commit to engaging with the Emirati gove...

We are writing ahead of the upcoming Greater Manchester mayoral by-election to outline our concerns over links between Manchester City Council and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) government, which is r...

In Saudi-Arabië zijn vorig jaar 356 doodstraffen uitgevoerd. Dat zegt Human Rights Watch. Het is het hoogste aantal sinds de mensenrechtenorganisatie de executies in het land begon te registreren. De ...

Saudi authorities on October 20, 2025, executed a man convicted of alleged crimes committed as a child.

Comedians performing at the Riyadh Comedy Festival did not use their public platform to urge Saudi authorities to free unjustly detained Saudi dissidents, journalists, and human rights activists

Usual supporters of free speech are under fire for signing on to Riyadh festival despite the government’s human rights abuses

Egyptian authorities detained prominent independent journalist Ismail Iskandarani over Facebook posts.

De komende twee weken komen tientallen wereldberoemde comedians naar Saudi-Arabië voor het Riyadh Comedy Festival. Human Rights Watch roept ze op geen blad voor de mond te nemen.

The Saudi government is using the Riyadh Comedy Festival 2025 from September 26 to October 9 to deflect attention from its brutal repression of free speech and other pervasive human rights violations.

Saudi authorities have been carrying out an unprecedented surge in executions in 2025 without apparent due process.

Gulf Cooperation Council countries are exposing migrant workers to yet another deadly summer of extreme heat conditions without adequate protection.

Scores of migrant workers in Saudi Arabia die in gruesome yet avoidable workplace-related accidents, including falling from buildings, electrocution, and even decapitation

Emirati authorities have designated as “terrorist” 11 political dissidents and their relatives as well as 8 companies they own, reflecting the country’s indiscriminate use of overbroad counterterroris...

Bulgarian authorities should suspend any plans to deport Saudi human rights defender Abdulrahman al-Khalidi to Saudi Arabia, and should allow his resettlement to a third country.

It’s been a deeply sobering and troubling few weeks for people who care about the future of human rights, democracy, and the rule of law in Europe.

An Emirati court upheld an abusive 15-year sentence on March 4, 2025, against the prominent Emirati human rights defender Ahmed Mansoor, who was convicted following a fundamentally unfair trial.

An Emirati court on March 4, 2025, rejected all appeals by people convicted in the United Arab Emirates’ second largest unfair mass trial, upholding the unfair convictions and abusive sentences of 53 ...

Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) is sponsoring an investment conference in Miami and further whitewashing the country’s egregious human rights record.

United Nations officials removed criticisms of the Saudi government from the official record of a UN-organized internet governance conference in Riyadh in December 2024, and retaliated against civil s...

A Saudi human rights activist appeared via a video link Wednesday at a UN forum in the kingdom to denounce the "silencing" of dissent under Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

Israeli authorities have intentionally deprived Palestinian civilians in Gaza of adequate access to water since October 2023, most likely resulting in thousands of deaths and thus committing the crime...

Saudi Arabia is hosting a major United Nations conference on internet governance while dozens of people remain imprisoned for peaceful online speech.

As the UK draws closer to finalizing a Free Trade Agreement with Gulf countries, Prime Minister Keir Starmer is visiting Saudi Arabia to boost domestic investment.

The 79-page report, “‘Die First, and I’ll Pay You Later’: Saudi Arabia’s ‘Giga-Projects’ Built on Widespread Labor Abuses,” documents widespread abuses against migrant workers, some of which may amoun...

After the assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, business leaders made a show of shunning Saudi Arabia, doing deals only behind closed doors. Now it’s all out in the open.

The 95-page report, “The Man Who Bought the World: Rights Abuses Linked to Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and Its Chairman, Mohammad bin Salman,” found that Saudi Arabia’s vast fossil fuel-deri...