🚩Yesterday Saudi authorities executed Abdullah al-Derazi for alleged crimes committed as a child. Saudi authorities reached two horrific milestones: the 300th execution of 2025 & the 2nd execution of a person accused of committing crimes as a child. @hrw.org www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...

🚩On @jimmykimmellive.bsky.social, Aziz Ansari said he would donate part of his Riyadh Comedy Fest fee to @hrw.org While HRW cannot accept the donation, it's not too late for him to call for the release of detained Saudi activists Manahel al Otaibi & Waleed Abu al Khair www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...

"This whitewashing comes amid significant increase in repression... including a crackdown on free speech, which many of these comedians defend but people in Saudi Arabia are completely denied.” - @joeyshea.bsky.social

“Instead of using Alaa Abdel Fattah’s release as an opportunity to correct course, Egyptian authorities arbitrarily detained journalist Ismail Iskandarani after a lengthy Orwellian questioning over his Facebook posts.” New from @hrw.org / @amrmagdi.bsky.social ⤵️

Migrant workers are the backbone of Saudi Arabia’s renewable energy projects. But our new research shows they are being exploited and dehumanised in the very industry that should symbolise a sustainable future. Read the full report ➡️ www.business-humanrights.org/en/from-us/b...

"Terwijl internationale comedians worden uitgenodigd die zich regelmatig uitspreken over het belang van vrijheid van meningsuiting, lopen Saudiërs die hetzelfde doen het risico gevangengezet of geëxecuteerd te worden, zegt HRW."

🚩Saudi govt is using the Riyadh Comedy Fest to deflect attention from its brutal repression The festival takes place on the 7th anniversary of Khashoggi's murder Lineup includes: Jimmy Carr, Pete Davidson and others @mazjobrani.bsky.social @sammorril.bsky.social www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

Saudi authorities executed 241 ppl in 2025: an unprecedented surge without due process The execution of Turki al-Jasser, a journalist who exposed corruption, raises concerns the Saudi govt is using the death penalty to crush peaceful dissent @aalodah.bsky.social @hrw.org www.hrw.org/news/2025/08...

GCC countries are exposing migrant workers to yet another deadly summer of extreme heat conditions without adequate protection. Migrant workers are unnecessarily dying, experiencing kidney failure, and suffering from other chronic illnesses. www.hrw.org/news/2025/06...

🚩NEW: @hrw.org finds scores of migrant workers in Saudi Arabia died in gruesome yet avoidable workplace accidents like falling from buildings, electrocution& decapitation Deaths are erroneously classified as “natural”&are neither investigated nor compensated www.hrw.org/news/2025/05...

🚩NEW: UAE authorities have designated as “terrorist” 11 political dissidents & relatives as well as 8 companies they own, reflecting the UAE’s indiscriminate use of overbroad counterterrorism laws and contempt for due process. See our new report here: www.hrw.org/news/2025/04...

20 human rights groups, including @hrw.org , call on Bulgarian authorities to suspend plans to deport Saudi HRD Abdulrahman al-Khalidi to Saudi Arabia. Bulgarian authorities would violate the Bulgarian, European& international law obligation of nonrefoulement. www.hrw.org/news/2025/03...

With talk in Europe now of rearmament and the need for new security structures, it's vital European leaders and institutions keep human rights at the centre of their efforts. Democracy depends on it. My new piece for @hrw.org www.hrw.org/news/2025/03...

Earlier this week an Emirati court upheld an abusive 15-year sentence against prominent Emirati human rights defender Ahmed Mansoor. The UAE continues to target a man who courageously stood up to his abusive govt even when very few would dare. www.hrw.org/news/2025/03...

🚩NEW: Yesterday a UAE court rejected all appeals by those convicted in the UAE84 unfair mass trial, upholding the unfair convictions & abusive sentences of 53 HRDs & political dissidents. The decision reveals the travesty of the UAE’s justice system. www.hrw.org/news/2025/03...

With the #Omnibus published, the Commission sides with giant corporations rather than victims of corporate abuse. Under the pretense of ‘simplification’, the Commission’s guts its own achievements on corporate accountability & abdicates principled leadership in advancing a #sustainable economy.

🚩Trump delivered a keynote address at the Saudi PIF-backed investment summit in Miami, an investment conference used to whitewash Saudi's rights record. PIF investments are a tool of KSA’s influence& help to build uncritical support for MBS’ agenda. www.hrw.org/news/2025/02...

🚩NEW: At the IGF in Riyadh, the UN censored criticism of Saudi Arabia by @linaalhathloul.bsky.social, threatened to revoke my badge & confiscated materials highlighting cases of human rights defenders ⬇️ www.hrw.org/news/2025/02...

So grateful to have co-hosted this historic session with @ALQST_En in Riyadh where @LinaAlhathloul spoke virtually about Saudi Arabia’s repression of freedom of expression online and the impacts of the new Cybercrime Treaty on human rights. www.france24.com/en/live-news...

The Israeli govt has deliberately denied Palestinians in Gaza the bare minimum water needed to survive. This policy of deprivation, resulting in thousands of deaths, is nothing short of the crime against humanity of extermination, and an act of genocide. www.hrw.org/news/2024/12...

This week Saudi Arabia hosts the IGF while dozens of people remain imprisoned for peaceful online speech. Many are charged under the country’s abusive counterterrorism law, and the authorities conduct invasive surveillance of civil society members. www.hrw.org/news/2024/12...

For the first time in nearly a decade, Human Rights Watch has official access to Saudi Arabia. HRW's @joeyshea.bsky.social is in Riyadh for the 19th Annual Internet Governance Forum. Learn more ⤵️

PM Starmer is set to visit Saudi Arabia to boost investment & as the UK draws closer to finalizing an FTA with the GCC. The new British govt risks furthering abuses rooted in Britain’s colonial past, esp widespread labor violations against migrant workers. www.hrw.org/news/2024/12...

So excited to join this amazing panel next week in London. Please join us in person on Dec 11 if you can!

Join us in London on December 11 at the Senate House for a discussion on the outcomes of #SaudiArabia’s reviews by #CEDAW and #CERD next week!

🚩NEW @hrw.org report: Migrant workers in Saudi Arabia are facing widespread abuses, some of which amount to forced labor including at giga-projects funded by the Public Investment Fund Saudi authorities are systematically failing to protect workers from grave abuses. hrw.org/node/389873

Wall Street Embraces MBS’s Money Man. ‘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.’ #SaudiArabia www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Huge @hrw.org report on Saudi's Public Investment Fund. Great work 👏👏👏 www.hrw.org/report/2024/...

🚨New @hrw.org report on Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund & links with abuses: -PIF has facilitated& benefited from human rights abuses -MBS concentrated PIF's enormous economic power in his own hands& uses it to pursue his interests, w/o accountability hrw.org/node/389704

Hi, world! I finally joined bsky and plan to be active here. I'm @hrw.org's Saudi Arabia and UAE researcher. We are releasing a major report tomorrow about Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund, the Public Investment Fund. Get in touch if you'd like an advanced copy!