Saudi authorities executed at least 356 people in 2025, setting a new record in the country for the highest number of ...

Saudi authorities executed at least 356 people in 2025, Human Right Watch (HRW) reported Tuesday. The mark set a new record for the highest annual number of executions in the nation since monitoring ...

According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, al-Jasser was convicted of writing a series of social media posts alleging corruption by members of the Saudi royal family. Journalist Turki ...

LONDON -- Saudi Arabia is seeking a seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council in a vote scheduled for Oct. 9, hoping to reverse its 2020 failure to win a spot on the 47-seat body. The kingdom ...

(Beirut) – Saudi authorities have been carrying out an unprecedented surge in executions in 2025 without apparent due process, Human Rights Watch and the Middle East Democracy Center said today. The ...

Activists believe that authorities are abusing the justice system to silence dissent and chill speech. President Donald Trump greets Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during the Saudi-US ...

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Wednesday condemned the silence of US President Donald Trump's administration on Saudi Arabia's mass execution of 37 people convicted of terrorism.

RIYADH: Shaded by palm trees in a popular Riyadh square, children play where blood once ran, a decade after Saudi Arabia moved its soaring number of executions behind closed doors. Al-Adl Square, ...

Human rights groups and press freedom advocates have criticised Saudi Arabia's execution of an imprisoned journalist over the weekend, the latest in a flurry of death sentences enacted in the kingdom.