Category Archives: Saudi Arabia
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Platform Compliance in the Middle East: How Opaque Content Moderation Enables Quiet Authoritarian Censorship
Across the MENA region, particularly in the Gulf, political speech increasingly disappears from major platforms [...]
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Arab Gulf States at odds: The UAE and Saudi Arabia in Yemen
Following developments in Yemen which saw the Southern Transitional Council (STC) seizing power across the [...]
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Women Human Rights Defenders Systematically Tortured in Saudi Prisons
Introduction Since 2019, Saudi Arabia has promoted a narrative of national reforms under Crown Prince [...]
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Munasaha Law: How the UAE has used Anti-Terrorism Laws to keep Outspoken Citizens in Indefinite Detention
With the recent death of political prisoner Ali Abdullah Fath Ali al-Khaja on the 19th [...]
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The Gulf’s Smart City Future is Built on Total Surveillance
Across the Gulf, governments are racing to reinvent themselves as hyper-efficient “smart cities”, supported by [...]
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Saudi Arabia announces new project to attract 150 million tourists per year
After Saudi Arabia hosted the United Nations World Tourism Organization last week, the Minister of [...]
Nov
Half Citizens: Women, Statelessness and the Struggle for Equality in the Gulf
Across the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region, nationality laws continue to entrench gender discrimination, perpetuating [...]
Nov
Deportation Surge in Saudi Arabia Reveals Severe Abuses in Migrant Detention Centers
Migrant labor has built much of modern Saudi Arabia, with foreign workers accounting for nearly [...]
Nov
Still Behind Bars: The Case of Mohammed al-Bejadi and Saudi Arabia’s Expanding Machinery of Repression
In Saudi Arabia, repression rarely ends when a prison sentence does. The case of Mohammed [...]
Nov
Saudi Arabia Releases More Prisoners, But That Is Not Enough
During this year, the Saudi authorities have begun to release some prominent figures after long [...]
Oct
The UK’s Ongoing Silence Over British Citizen Ahmed al-Doush’s Arbitrary Detention in Saudi Arabia
Ahmed al-Doush, a British citizen, is being detained in Saudi Arabia for exercising his freedom [...]
Oct
UAE Counterterrorism Law: A Tool To Suppress Dissent
It is now sadly well known that some Gulf countries use anti-terrorism laws to suppress [...]
Oct
An Uncertain Future for Food Insecurity
The access to and availability of food is undoubtedly one of the most important human [...]
Sep
Saudi Arabia and Kuwait’s AI Partnership: Innovation or Entrenchment of Repression?
Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries are investing substantial resources into the development of artificial intelligence [...]
Sep
The GCC and Social Developments
Last week, the Gulf Cooperation Council’s (GCC) undersecretaries for social development met in Kuwait to [...]
Sep