Saudi Arabia: Riyadh Comedy Festival Whitewashes Abuses. Comics Performing Should Urge Release of Detained Activists. www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah freed from prison. The British-Egyptian human rights activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah has been released from jail after serving six years for sharing a Facebook post. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

While the Trump administration claims no one will die over the axing of its overseas development budgets, aid agencies say the action will cost at least 3 million lives. Fatima and her baby in Yemen were among the first. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

In recent weeks, Saudi authorities have renewed efforts to displace residents of al-Muwaila village, part of the area earmarked for Neom. Schools have been shut, forcing families to send children to Duba, 47km away. And residents have been warned to evacuate or face power and water cuts.

An Israeli drone strike in southern Lebanon has killed five people including three children. news.sky.com/story/israel...

As the world recognizes Palestinian state, Israel's plan to bury it.“It’s performative diplomacy.You’re recognizing the Palestinian state,but at the same time,your actions are aiding and abetting the very system that is destroying that state.” www.972mag.com/palestinian-...

Starmer finally said it: ‘We recognise Palestine.’ where is the action? “a recognition that is not connected to anything, something that ends up being a fig leaf for western governments to say that they have taken big steps, and therefore catch a break.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Gaza City residents hounded by Israeli quadcopters as 14 killed since dawn aje.io/fqvomg

Saudi’s $500bn fantasy projects are crumbling: NEOM downsized, Trojena struggling, The Line scaled back, and now Sindalah Island quietly handed to another PIF arm. Endless hype, little delivery. #Saudi #NEOM #TheLin www.ft.com/content/5b61...

Gazans flee ‘death and devastation’ with no transportation or means of shelter. On average, the journey south costs more than $3,000, according to UN Palestine refugee agency UNRWA, making it out of reach for many. news.un.org/en/story/202...

At least 75 people have been killed in a drone strike on a mosque during morning prayers in El Fasher city, in the west of Sudan, as the United Arab Emirates-armed paramilitary Rapid Support Forces continue their push to take control of El Fasher. news.un.org/en/story/202...

‘Go-to trope’: how the far right is exploiting violence against women and girls. From Tommy Robinson to Reform UK, nationalist figures are weaponising women’s safety to push anti-migrant fears. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Israel ramps up Gaza City assault, kills children in strike on school aje.io/yhu1wk

Yesterday, #SaudiArabia's authorities announced the execution of four Egyptian nationals- Ahmed Zeinhom, Abdel Fattah Kamal, Rami al-Najjar and Hesham al-Teles (not pictured)- for drug-related offences. All suffered abuses in the course of their arrest, detention and trial.

A United Nations commission of inquiry has confirmed what we’ve been witnessing all along: Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. For nearly two years, the psychopath IDF soldiers have live-streamed their crimes to the world. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Why are major US comedians performing in Saudi Arabia? Rhetorical question, I know the answer is just money. And no, they will never speak on the abuses of this regime.

Major U.S. comedians set to perform in Saudi Arabia urged not to help cover up "abuses of a repressive regime" - CBS News www.cbsnews.com/news/saudi-a...

Very British bribery: the whistleblower who exposed the UK’s dodgy arms deals with Saudi Arabia – podcast www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

What I saw at Saturday’s rally was racism, pure and simple. Labour won’t tackle it until we can call it what it is. Silence about the bigotry inherent in events like Tommy Robinson’s march will be seen by the thugs as tacit approval of their message. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Starvation and Bombs in Besieged Sudanese City As Residents Cry for Help - At least 260,000 civilians trapped in El Fasher face a dire choice: risk being starved or bombed if they stay, and raped or killed if they flee. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/w...

Sudan war: Torture, rape and forced starvation as paramilitaries suffocate besieged city. news.sky.com/story/sudan-...

Far-right London rally sees record crowds and violent clashes with police. More than 110,000 people join Tommy Robinson-organised protest featuring racist conspiracy theories and hate speech. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

At the UN with @alqst.bsky.social , I raised the ongoing discrimination against women in #SaudiArabia: detained in ‘care homes’ for ‘disobedience.’ Enough. Saudi women are not props for diplomacy or branding tools for Vision 2030. #HRC60

Starting soon: The Saudi Human Rights Commission 20 years of whitewashing the Kingdom’s human rights record 📽️ Livestream here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7ry...

🇺🇳 ALQST and partners are in Geneva for the 60th session of the UN Human Rights Council (#HRC60), highlighting the rights situation in #SaudiArabia. If you're here, join our side event today at 2pm local time. We’re also hosting a webinar at 4:30pm CET, live via our YouTube.

Hundreds of migrant workers at Saudi firm Sendan Intl., including those on Aramco projects, went unpaid for up to 8 months—many stranded, undocumented, or forced home without wages.‬⁩ #SaudiArabia www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

🇺🇳 ALQST and partners are hosting a #HRC60 side event this Friday, exposing the whitewashing role of #SaudiArabia's Human Rights Commission, 20 years after its founding. If you can't attend in Geneva, follow our live posts during the event.

In Geneva today, Friday 12 Sept at 14h — we will share our concern for human rights in #SaudiArabia

Five-month investigation reveals how four members of one family were shot and killed in a single day and highlights a pattern in which Israeli troops target unarmed civilians. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

The Qatari prime minister has condemned Israel's strike on Doha, calling it an act of 'state terrorism.' 'these barbaric actions only reflect the barbarism of (Netanyahu), who is dragging the region to a place where it unfortunately cannot be repaired' www.theguardian.com/world/video/...

Israel bombs the capital of another country with total impunity. Why stop there—why not just declare war on the entire world? news.sky.com/story/israel...

Israeli army says Hamas leadership targeted in Qatar’s capital - They’ll strike anyone, anywhere. At this point, why not just declare war on the whole world? aje.io/71g9lr

In April, the UN Independent Expert on the enjoyment of all human rights by older persons visited #SaudiArabia. The findings, while valuable, have some flaws, compounded by authorities' denial of access to older persons arbitrarily detained. 🧵 ➡️ docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/60/...

UN experts are dismayed over the execution of Jalal Labbad and urge Saudi authorities to return his body to his family. Expressing grave concern at the risk of execution facing other child defendants, they urge authorities to commute the death sentences. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

A new mural by Banksy has appeared on the side of the Royal Courts of Justice building in central London. It depicts a judge in a traditional wig and black robe hitting a protester lying on the ground, with blood splattering their placard. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

More than 7,000 children under the age of five were put on recovery programmes for acute malnutrition at clinics run by Unicef in Gaza in just two weeks last month. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Israeli attacks continue across Gaza City, at least 21 killed. www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Window to prevent famine spreading in Gaza is ‘closing fast’, UN warn. "The situation is chaotic now. We're trying to evacuate, but we don't know where to go, despite the constant talk of safe areas.” news.un.org/en/story/202...

How Gaza is even more dangerous for deaf Palestinians who can’t hear missiles coming www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...

Elderly people arrested just for holding signs. Shame on this government and its police.

This is what today looks like: elderly people arrested just for holding signs. Shame on this government and its police.

Our friend Rohan was arrested today for standing against genocide in Palestine.

Happening now.

TOMORROW – National March for Palestine: our government is complicit in Gaza’s starvation.

Only one in four detainees from Gaza are identified as fighters by Israel’s military intelligence, classified data indicates, with civilians making up the vast majority of Palestinians held without charge or trial in abusive prisons. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

I wrote this for @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social ‬⁩: Nothing unnerves Britain’s loudest self-styled ‘feminist’ commentators more than the Palestinian flag — not as a cry for justice, but as an affront to their moral high ground. www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/when...

‘When the western-backed, Saudi-led military campaign began in March 2015, I started compiling a mental list of all the ways the war was scorching the concept of childhood in Yemen.’ www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

76 Palestinians killed across Gaza in last 24 hours – reports www.channel4.com/news/76-pale...

Please don’t succumb to hopelessness over Palestine. Your voice can still make a difference. If your babies were starving in Gaza, would you want silence? If your kids were buried alive under rubble, would you want people to demand accountability? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

At least nine people, including five children, have been killed in an Israeli strike while fetching water in al-Mawasi, an area of southern Gaza which Israel has designated as a safe zone. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...