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Country legislation

Criminal Procedure Law

Cyber Crime Law

Law of Terrorism Crimes and its Financing 2014

Law on Non-Governmental Organisations (AR)

Cases

January 18, 2022

Two Uyghur men disappeared while at imminent risk of being forcibly returned from Saudi Arabia to China

Musa Al Qarni

October 26, 2021

Saudi dissident murdered in Dhahban prison after nearly 15 years of detention

July 14, 2021

Saudi medical doctor, Lina Alsharif, arbitrarily detained in Riyadh since May 2021

Abdullah

May 28, 2021

University graduate Abdullah Jelan disappeared in Medina

Advocacy

waleed

April 15, 2022

Joint statement: Rights groups call for the release of Waleed Abu al-Khair on the eighth anniversary of his arrest

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Formula One

December 02, 2021

Don’t sportswash human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia and the UAE: NGOs write to Formula One CEO ahead of Grand Prix

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Yemen

November 29, 2021

US Congress: Block the Biden administration's $650 million arms sale to Saudi Arabia

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Musa al-Qarni

October 19, 2021

Killing of jailed reformer Musa al-Qarni highlights use of torture in Saudi prisons

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Reports

KSA

June 21, 2021

Joint-report by MENA Rights Group, ESOHR and Reprieve to the UN Committee against Torture - Saudi Arabia's third periodic review

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June 18, 2019

Joint follow up report on Saudi Arabia to the UN Committee against Torture

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Analysis

Riyadh

October 07, 2020

Saudi Arabia: UN Group denounces continued and widespread use of enforced disappearances

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Bandar bin Mohammed Al-Aiban, Minister and President of the Human Rights Commission of Saudi Arabia

May 18, 2020

Submission to UN Secretary-General shows ongoing reprisals against Saudi human rights defenders who cooperate with the UN

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WGEID President

December 24, 2019

MENA Rights Group highlights systematic practice of enforced disappearance in Saudi Arabia in general allegation to the UN

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Loujain Al Hathloul

March 14, 2019

It's high time to hold Saudi Arabia to account on women's rights

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