Ahead of the upcoming 3rd cycle Universal Periodic Review (UPR) and concerned over the continued criminalization of the right to freedom of expression and opinion, ICSFT urges the Saudi Arabian Government to implement UPR recommendations on freedom of expression, arbitrary detention, torture and ill-treatment, death penalty and corporal punishment, fair trial and due process, and positive cooperation with human rights mechanisms.

Saudi Arabia has failed to implement the majority of its recommendations from the 2ndCycle UPR. Instead, the government has increasingly targeted human rights defenders, further restricted civic space, and continued to apply the death penalty.

In this context ICSFT calls for the immediate release of detained journalists and activists, and urges the government to amend its criminal code and code of criminal procedure in accordance with international standards.

Please find attached the press release

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ICSFT pr on 3rd cycle UPR Saudi Arabia