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Freedom in the World 2024: Saudi Arabia
Freedom House · 2024
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2026-09-01
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Full report covering 2023: succession, Allegiance Council, Majlis al-Shura, 2017 detentions, Khashoggi, capital punishment.
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Saudi Arabia's Basic Law of Governance (1992) declares the Quran and the Sunna to be the country's constitution and vests rule in the sons of the founder King Abdulaziz and their descendants.
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The US Office of the Director of National Intelligence assessed in 2021 that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved an operation in Istanbul to capture or kill the journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
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Saudi Arabia executed at least 170 people in 2023, 345 in 2024 and 356 in 2025, the highest numbers in decades, many for non-lethal drug offences.
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