Dissidents have been detained as political prisoners in Saudi Arabia during the 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, 2020s and earlier. Protests and sit-ins calling for political prisoners to be released took place d
Loujain al-Hathloul, arrested and tortured during the 2018–2019 Saudi crackdown on feminists
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Saudi Arabia is an absolute monarchy in which the king holds all legislative, executive, and judicial power. The concentration of authority in the monarchy has drawn international criticism for restri
Political prisoners in Saudi Arabia
…a capacity to hold 10,000" and that the over-occupation rate was about a factor of three, thus inferring about 30,000 political prisoners altogether. Human rights in Saudi Arabia…
On 16 October 2018, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman met with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to discuss the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi, who was a vocal critic of the Saudi regime.
A protest outside the Saudi Arabian Embassy in London against detention of Raif Badawi, 13 January 2017
Abdullah al-Hamid was imprisoned seven times for supporting the establishment of a constitutional monarchy in Saudi Arabia. He had been serving an 11-year jail sentence from 2013 until his death in April 2020.