European Saudi Organisation for Human Rights (ESOHR)
Founded2013 (2013) or earlier[1]
Focushuman rights in Saudi Arabia[2]
Location
Area served
Saudi Arabia
Methoddocumenting, monitoring and publishing reports on human rights violations, coordinating with institutions and lobbyig governments, providing human rights training, supporting victims[4][2]
Key people
Ali Adubisi (Director)[3]
Websitewww.esohr.org/en

The European Saudi Organisation for Human Rights (ESOHR) (Arabic: المنظمة الأوروبية السعودية لحقوق الإنسان) is a Europe-based human rights organisation for documenting and promoting human rights in Saudi Arabia.[5][6][2]

Aims and origin

The European Saudi Organisation for Human Rights has published reports on human rights violations in Saudi Arabia since 2013.[1] It describes its work to include documenting and monitoring human rights violations, publishing reports, coordinating with institutions and supporting victims.[2] ESOHR is led by Ali Adubisi, based in Berlin and originally from al-Awamiyah in the Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia of Saudi Arabia, where he was detained many times after the Arab Spring.[6]

Reports

ESOHR's activities over 2013–2018 include translating and commenting on the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Interior January 2012 list of 23 Eastern Province youths that the ministry wished to arrest because of dissident activities,[1] describing the Saudi government's actions in the Eastern Province in 2017 as "a war ... unlike anything seen in [Saudi Arabia's] 80-year history", and warning against Israa al-Ghomgham's August 2018 death sentence as a "dangerous precedent" that could lead to executions of other Saudi political activists.[5]

In 2019, ESOHR provided a detailed report about the 2019 Saudi Arabia mass execution, giving details of enquiries to Saudi authorities about the executees' cases by United Nations special rapporteurs and other United Nations representatives.[7]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "The list of the twenty three (23)". European Saudi Organisation for Human Rights. 2013-08-30. Archived from the original on 2018-08-25. Retrieved 2018-08-25.
  2. ^ a b c d "About us". European Saudi Organisation for Human Rights. Archived from the original on 2018-08-25. Retrieved 2018-08-25.
  3. ^ a b "Contacts". European Saudi Organisation for Human Rights. Archived from the original on 2018-08-25. Retrieved 2018-08-25.
  4. ^ a b "European Saudi Organization for Human Rights". Reporters Sans Frontières. 2018. Archived from the original on 2018-10-20. Retrieved 2018-10-20.
  5. ^ a b Brennan, David (2018-08-21). "Who Is Israa al-Ghomgham? Female Saudi Activist May Be Beheaded After Death Sentence". Newsweek. Archived from the original on 2018-08-24. Retrieved 2018-08-24.
  6. ^ a b von Hein, Matthias (2017-08-10). "Is Saudi Arabia waging war on its Shiite minority?". Deutsche Welle. Archived from the original on 2018-08-25. Retrieved 2018-08-25.
  7. ^ "Saudi Arabia is carrying out a second oppressive mass slaughter in the era of King Salman, including children, protestors, and activists". European Saudi Organisation for Human Rights. 2019-04-24. Archived from the original on 2019-05-03. Retrieved 2019-04-25.
  8. ^ a b "Alqst and Over 160 groups call for accountability following murder of journalist and widespread arrest of women's rights defenders". ALQST. 2018-10-26. Archived from the original on 2018-10-28. Retrieved 2018-10-28.

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