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Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia: Implement Proposed Labor Reforms Government Should Immediately Abolish Sponsorship System Saudi Arabia should immediately implement its proposed reform to the kafala sponsorship system and extend labor protections to domestic workers, Human Rights Watch said today. Responding to the Saudi government's reaction to a recent report, "'As If I Am Not Human’: Abuses Against Asian Domestic Workers in Saudi Arabia," author Nisha Varia said, “It’s a real shame when Saudis try to deflect attention from abuses against domestic workers by arguing that employers are the victims or focusing only on those women who have positive experiences.” July 21, 2008 Press Release Also available in 
Printer friendly version Saudi Arabia: Domestic Workers Face Harsh Abuses Key Reforms Stalled, Few Remedies for Slavery-Like Conditions Saudi Arabia should implement labor, immigration, and criminal justice reforms to protect domestic workers from serious human rights abuses that in some cases amount to slavery, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today. Employers often face no punishment for committing abuses including months or years of unpaid wages, forced confinement, and physical and sexual violence, while some domestic workers face imprisonment or lashings for spurious charges of theft, adultery, or "witchcraft." July 8, 2008 Press Release Also available in
Printer friendly version "As If I Am Not Human" Abuses against Asian Domestic Workers in Saudi Arabia
HRW Index No.: 1-56432-351-X July 8, 2008 Report Also available in
Download PDF, 466 KB, 137 pgs Purchase online Read Press Release Enforcing the International Prohibition on the Juvenile Death Penalty Submission for the Secretary-General's report on a death penalty moratorium Human Rights Watch's submission documents laws and practices resulting in the death penalty against juvenile offenders in the five countries known to have executed juvenile offenders since January 2005: Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Yemen. July 7, 2008 Legal Submissions Printer friendly version Letter to Prince Khaled bin Faisal on the Detention of Tariq Yunis H.R.H. Prince Khaled bin Faisal bin Abd al-‘Aziz Al Sa’ud Governor Mekka Region Your Royal Highness, We write to you to request that you order the immediate release of Tariq Yunis Akram Mashharawi, currently imprisoned in Buraiman prison, Jeddah. June 9, 2008 Letter Also available in
Printer friendly version Saudi Arabia: Release Leading Human Rights Activist Secret Police Arrest Professor at University The Saudi Interior Ministry should immediately and unconditionally release Matrook al-Faleh, one of Saudi Arabia’s leading human rights activists, Human Rights Watch said today. May 21, 2008 Press Release Also available in
Printer friendly version Saudi Arabia: Nour Miyati Denied Justice for Torture Judge Ignores Evidence in Case of Extreme Abuse against Indonesian Domestic Worker An appeals court should overturn a Riyadh court’s decision to drop charges against the Saudi employer who abused Nour Miyati, an Indonesian domestic worker, so severely she required several surgeries, including amputation of her toes and fingers, Human Rights Watch said today. The judge awarded Nour Miyati 2,500 riyals as compensation, or approximately US$670, a small fraction of what such injuries would normally garner in Saudi Arabia May 21, 2008 Press Release Also available in
Printer friendly version Saudi Arabia: Investigate Police for Burning Yemenis Interior Ministry Protects Officers Implicated in Inhumane Act The Saudi government should investigate Khamis Mushayit police officers who allegedly set fire to the hiding place of Yemeni migrants, 18 of whom suffered serious burn injuries, Human Rights Watch said today. Victim accounts of the incident contradict Ministry of Interior and Civil Defense denials that the fire was accidentally set by the victims and not ignited by the police. May 14, 2008 Press Release Also available in
Printer friendly version Saudi Arabia: Stop Trials for ‘Insulting’ Islam Charges Violate Precepts of Law, Freedom of Expression Courts in Jeddah should dismiss cases against a Saudi web critic and a Turkish barber charged with “insulting” Islam, an unequivocal violation of freedom of expression protected under international law, Human Rights Watch said today. May 13, 2008 Press Release Also available in
Printer friendly version Saudi Arabia: Medical Workers Stranded Without Pay Labor Court Fails 55 South Asian Professionals, Prevents Them From Leaving Saudi Arabia’s Labor Court should act immediately to address workers’ complaints against the Nukhba House of Medical Services company, including unpaid wages and restrictions on returning home, Human Rights Watch said today. May 9, 2008 Press Release Also available in
Printer friendly version Re-education, Saudi style David Miliband seems impressed by Riyadh's counter-radicalisation programme. So he must have overlooked its flagrant breaches of basic rights By Christoph Wilcke, Researcher, Middle East and North Africa Division Published in Guardian Unlimited Returning from a visit to Saudi Arabia, Foreign Secretary David Miliband describes in his blog his experience of a Saudi programme to turn terrorism suspects off violence. Miliband clearly thinks it is a good thing. But his account is incomplete in one important way: the programme is hardly voluntary, and the estimated 1,500-2,000 detainees being re-educated have been detained often for over three years without charge or trial or other legal process. April 28, 2008 Commentary Printer friendly version Saudi Arabia: Male Guardianship Policies Harm Women Sex Segregation Keeps Women Out of Public Life Saudi Arabia’s male guardianship of women and policies of sex segregation stop women from enjoying their basic rights, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Saudi women often must obtain permission from a guardian (a father, husband, or even a son) to work, travel, study, marry, or even access health care April 21, 2008 Press Release Also available in
Printer friendly version Perpetual Minors Human Rights Abuses Stemming from Male Guardianship and Sex Segregation in Saudi Arabia
HRW Index No.: 1-56432-307-2 April 20, 2008 Report Also available in
Download PDF, 357 KB, 52 pgs Purchase online Read Press Release Human Rights Watch Letter to Saudi Minister of Interior Prince Nayef bin Abd al-‘Aziz Al Sa’ud on Tunisian Detainee Human Rights Watch is writing this open letter to you about a Tunisian man being held in a jail in al-Medina who in our view would be at risk of persecution and of torture if returned to Tunisia. April 11, 2008 Letter Also available in
Printer friendly version Code for oppression By Christoph Wilcke, Researcher, Middle East and North Africa Division, and Clarisa Bencomo, Researcher, Children’s Rights Division Published in Progress Online Though Saudi officials pay lip service to the rule of law, this is difficult to reconcile with reality. Arbitrary arrests and unfair trials characterize the fate of those who enter the system April 7, 2008 Commentary Printer friendly version Precarious Justice Arbitrary Detention and Unfair Trials in the Deficient Criminal Justice System of Saudi Arabia
HRW Index No.: E2003 March 25, 2008 Report Also available in
Download PDF, 533 KB, 146 pgs Purchase online Read Press Release Adults Before Their Time Children in Saudi Arabia’s Criminal Justice System
HRW Index No.: E2004 March 25, 2008 Report Also available in
Download PDF, 382 KB, 82 pgs Purchase online Read Press Release Saudi Arabia: Heavy Price of Unfair Justice System Instead of Protection, Children are Exposed to Danger Saudi Arabia should urgently enact a penal code to protect all criminal suspects against arbitrary arrest, Human Rights Watch said in two reports released today. Criminal defendants, especially children, need greater protection against gross abuses during interrogation and unfair trials. The new reports are the result of a yearlong examination of the criminal justice system and draw on hundreds of interviews with Saudi officials, current and former detainees, their lawyers, and their families. The first, 144-page report, “Precarious Justice: Arbitrary Detention and Unfair Trials in a Deficient Criminal Justice System,” documents the arbitrary arrest and detention of individuals for vaguely defined crimes or behavior that is not inherently criminal. Once arrested, suspects often face prolonged solitary confinement, ill-treatment, forced confessions, and are denied a lawyer at crucial stages of interrogation and trial. March 24, 2008 Press Release Also available in
Printer friendly version Letter to the Secretary General of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference Urging the Organisation to Improve and Strengthen the 1999 OIC Convention on Combating International Terrorism Human Rights Watch writes to urge Dr. Ihsanoglu to use his position as Secretary General of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference to support measures at the upcoming Summit of the Organisation of Islamic Conference in Dakar, Senegal on March 13-14 that would improve and strengthen the 1999 OIC Convention on Combating International Terrorism. In particular, we urge the OIC to consider two amendments to the Convention in order to narrow its overbroad definition of terrorism and to make absolutely clear that there is no sanction in Islam for deliberately attacking civilians, whatever the circumstances or justifications. March 11, 2008 Letter Also available in
Printer friendly version Arab League: Reject Proposal to Restrict Satellite Broadcasts Information Ministers’ New ‘Principles’ Would Extend Repression of Free Speech Arab governments should publicly reject those elements of a proposed regional policy on satellite television broadcasting that would seriously restrict freedom of expression and information, Human Rights Watch said today. February 26, 2008 Press Release Also available in
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