Category Archives: Countries
Bahrain Reports
Repression Continues to Hit Human Rights Activists in Bahrain. Despite Royal Pardons, Many Are Still in Jail.
Between the end of 2024 and March 2025, Bahrain’s King Ahmed bin Isa Al Khalifa [...]
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Saudi Arabia Reports
The Rights of Older Persons in Saudi Arabia: Non-Citizens and Detained Dissidents at Risk
The United Nations (UN) Principles for Older Persons function within the broader international human rights [...]
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Saudi Arabia Reports
Indonesia’s Plan to Lift Labor Migration Ban to Saudi Arabia Raises Alarms Over Workers’ Rights
In March 2025, the Indonesian government announced plans to revoke their decade-long moratorium on sending [...]
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Saudi Arabia Reports
Reprisal Against Family Members: The Case of Sulaiman al-Dowaish’s Sons
In April 2016, preacher Sulaiman al-Dowaish was arrested and tortured by the Saudi authorities after [...]
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Saudi Arabia Reports
Transnational Repression and the Unanswered Case of Jamal Khashoggi
he assassination of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in October 2018 remains a clear example of [...]
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Yemen: EEAS Spokesperson’s statement on the current situation in the war
On 16 May 2019, Maja Kocijančič, Spokesperson for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy at the [...]
May
Saudi Arabia: Mohammed Abdullah Al-Otaibi ill-treated in prison
Human rights defender Mohammed Abdullah Al-Otaibi, who is serving a 14 years prison sentence, is [...]
May
Saudi Arabia: Vision 2030, an Economic Plan to Whitewash Human Rights Abuses
Saudi Arabia launched the Vision 2030 economic program in 2016 to boost its economy. The [...]
May
Bahrain: Ali AlArab and Ahmed AlMalali Facing Death Penalty
UPDATE: United Nations Experts call on Bahrain to halt executions of Ali AlArab and Ahmed [...]
May