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Disappeared

Sexually assaulted

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Saudi Arabian Government Repression in the US and Worldwide

This report investigates and analyzes the impact of Saudi Arabia’s policies of detention, harassment, and entrapment of US citizens and their family members, situating these as part of worldwide repression campaigns, particularly against those who focus on human rights or policy issues critical of the Saudi government. The report focuses on detention of US persons and their family members, unlawful travel bans against US persons and their family members, forms of entrapment within the borders of Saudi Arabia, and transnational surveillance, harassment, and intimidation campaigns, in 2021.

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65,000

Detained

Tens of thousands of political prisoners remain behaind bars in Egypt.

241

Executed

According to Reprieve, between 2018 and 2021, Egypt executed 241 people, the fifth highest in the world in this period.

2,182

Sentenced to death

2,182 People have been sentenced to death in mass trials in the country since 2011.

2,700

Disappeared

The Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms has documented over 2,700 enforced disappearances in Egypt in the last five years.

655

Sexually assaulted

The Freedom Initiative and the Egyptian Front for Human Rights documented at least 655 cases of sexual violence in prisons since 2015, including rape, molestation, and electrocution of the genitals.