“The change in Saudi Arabia seems to be from killing journalists behind closed doors to executing them in plain sight.”
— Abdullah Alaoudh (@aalodah.bsky.social), Senior Director for Countering Authoritarianism at @mideastdc.org
18.11.2025 19:36 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
“It's a tragic irony that while Saudi Arabia carries out a record number of executions — including prominent journalist Turki al-Jasser, just a few months ago — MBS comes to Washington for his first visit since his regime’s ruthless murder of Jamal Khashoggi.”
— @aalodah.bsky.social, @mideastdc.org
17.11.2025 15:13 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Today, 1 PM ET: Don't miss this DAWN and @mideastdc.org online event: Rightsizing the U.S.-Saudi Arabia Relationship: What to Make of Mohammed bin Salman's Washington Visit
With @aalodah.bsky.social, Hala Aldosari, and @sarahleah1.bsky.social
Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
17.11.2025 14:41 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Join DAWN and @mideastdc.org Monday, Nov. 17, 1 PM ET: Rightsizing the US-Saudi Arabia Relationship: What to Make of Mohammed bin Salman's Washington Visit
With MEDC's @aalodah.bsky.social, DAWN fellow Hala Aldosari, and DAWN's @sarahleah1.bsky.social
Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
14.11.2025 16:52 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Saudi Arabia Executed a Prominent Journalist who Exposed Corruption. The World Should Act Before Other Dissidents are Next. - MEDC
🚨 Saudi Arabia executed a prominent journalist who exposed corruption. The world should act before other dissidents are next.
Read our commentary on the shocking execution of Turki Al-Jasser by @aalodah.bsky.social, @sethbinder.bsky.social, Sheridan Cole & Haydn Welch: mideastdc.org/publication/...
18.06.2025 19:56 — 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
A Saudi journalist tweeted against the government – and was executed for ‘high treason’
The death of Turki al-Jasser was the first high-profile killing of a journalist since the 2018 murder of Jamal Khashoggi
#SaudiArabia executed Turki al-Jasser last week, the 1st high-profile killing of a journalist since #JamalKhashoggi.
Al-Jasser had 2 Twitter accounts, including an anonymous account that "was in the crosshairs of the Saudi government,” @aalodah.bsky.social said: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
18.06.2025 20:34 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 3
📢 Join us on Monday, June 16 at 10AM ET for a timely conversation on #SaudiArabia’s growing regional influence, US-Saudi relations, & the sidelining of human rights.
Register here: mideastdc.org/events/from-...
11.06.2025 17:14 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🚨 BREAKING: Mohammed al-Rabiah is FREE! 🕊️
Al-Rabiah spent over 7 years in prison in #SaudiArabia solely for advocating for women’s rights. We are relieved that he can finally reunite with his loved ones.
#Saudi authorities should free all others unjustly detained. #FreeThemNOW
29.05.2025 23:11 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
After four years in prison in #SaudiArabia, Dr. Lina al-Sharif is FREE!🕊️
It's time for #Saudi authorities to free all others unjustly detained. #FreeThemNOW
20.05.2025 18:56 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Trump’s Pledge to the Middle East: No More ‘Lectures on How to Live’
The credulous headline here gives Trump way too much credit. Listen to @aalodah.bsky.social instead. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/w...
15.05.2025 14:41 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Saudi Arabia emerges as key hub for Trump’s foreign policy ambitions
Saudi Arabia’s mediation of high-stakes negotiations promises to revive a relationship the president and crown prince cultivated during Trump’s first term.
MEDC's @aalodah.bsky.social told @washingtonpost.com that the Trump administration’s embrace of #SaudiArabia was an example of wealth & power winning out over human rights.
“When you have such power and money, people will deal with you,” he said.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
02.04.2025 22:09 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Saudi Arabia frees prisoners in apparent easing of crackdown
Last year, Saudi teacher Asaad al-Ghamdi was given 20 years in prison for criticising the government online -- one of a wave of heavy sentences that drew international condemnation.
More than 30 dissidents, many jailed for social media posts, have been released since December in #SaudiArabia.
MEDC's @aalodah.bsky.social welcomed the releases & hoped #Riyadh would end "arbitrary detention & the arrest of prisoners of conscience once & for all."
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
21.03.2025 18:50 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
BREAKING via CNN:
“The Trump administration is expected to invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, a sweeping wartime authority, in the coming days.
The move is designed to speed up the president’s mass deportation pledge.”
13.03.2025 14:45 — 👍 498 🔁 277 💬 68 📌 125
Fact Sheet – Captured Courts: Mohammed bin Salman's Judicial Takeover in Saudi Arabia - MEDC
🚨 New MEDC Fact Sheet by @aalodah.bsky.social reveals how MBS captured Saudi courts by transferring prosecutorial powers to the Royal Court & installing loyalists.
MBS blames judges for lack of progress on rights abuses, but he's the one holding all power.
The facts: mideastdc.org/publication/...
25.02.2025 16:26 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🚨 Bulgarian authorities should suspend any plans to deport Saudi human rights defender Abdulrahman al-Khalidi to #SaudiArabia, & should allow his resettlement to a third country.
Read our joint statement with @hrw.org & 18 other organizations: mideastdc.org/publication/...
10.03.2025 15:17 — 👍 1 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Last night State Department sent Freedom House notification of termination of a multi-year, multimillion dollar grant for work on transnational repression that I spent most of the last year developing and setting up.
08.03.2025 16:47 — 👍 621 🔁 234 💬 48 📌 29
Opinion | The Wannabe Putin in Saudi Arabia
Why would Biden “reset” relations with a crown prince who seeks a nuclear program?
Must-read today!:
The Wannabe Putin in Saudi Arabia — the NYT by Nick Kristof
“So where else are we making the same mistake, empowering a dictator instead of confronting him? My candidate for tomorrow’s Putin is MBS”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/28/opinion/putin-mbs-saudi-arabia-biden.html
29.06.2023 00:10 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
ياجماعة استمتعوا بالجو شوي هنا قبل يجي الذباب 😂
كل عام وأنتم بخير وصحة وسلامة
من العايدين الفايزين
28.06.2023 00:30 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
For a few days I was at the UN with civil society representatives to discuss the abuse of counterterrorism by authoritarian regimes to stifle peaceful activism and opposition
I spoke with officials about Saudi Arabia and its abusive system and laws
23.06.2023 11:30 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
بسم الله!
20.06.2023 10:40 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hello Blue Sky folks
This is my first post and I am still figuring this out
20.06.2023 10:40 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto
I study transnational religion, memory, rights & violence in the Middle East and its diasporas
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