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Saudi authorities must release women’s rights activist Salma al-Shehab

News August 29, 2022

We, the undersigned NGOs, call on the international community to press Saudi Arabian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release women’s rights activist and academic Salma al-Shehab, who was recently sentenced to 34 years in prison based on tweets in support of women’s rights and for the respect of basic rights. It is the longest known …

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Data Protection in Saudi Arabia: Comparative Analysis

News, Research February 24, 2022

The Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL) is Saudi Arabia’s first comprehensive data protection law with the aim to protect individual privacy by regulating the collection, processing, disclosure, and retention of personal data. The PDPL provides a detailed framework including criteria for data processing, data subjects’ rights, entities’ obligations when processing personal data, data sovereignty and …

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Enforced disappearances and accompanying impunity continue to prevail in the region

News August 30, 2021

Today, on the occasion of the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, we the 33 undersigned local, regional, and international organizations, associations, and networks come together to highlight the dramatic and persistent nature of enforced disappearances in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and the accompanying impunity enjoyed by perpetrators of …

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Saudi Arabia: Google Should Halt Plans to Establish Cloud Region

News May 28, 2021

Joint Statement by Human Rights and Digital Privacy Rights Organizations The undersigned human rights and digital rights organizations urge Google to immediately halt its plan to establish a new Google Cloud region in Saudi Arabia until the company can publicly demonstrate how it will mitigate adverse human rights impacts. Saudi Arabia’s recent track record of …

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Google Cloud’s Data Center in KSA raises data privacy concerns in the region

News April 30, 2021

In a decision to expand their global network with new cloud regions, Google announced in December 2020 that Google Cloud will deploy and operate a Cloud region in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). This decision is a result of an agreement between Aramco (Saudi Petroleum giant) and Google, after two years of discussions. They …

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