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Abdulrahman Al-Khalidi (born 1993, Riyadh) is a Saudi journalist and human rights defender. From 2011 to 2013, he was an active member of the Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association (ACPRA) and participated in peaceful civil society campaigns including “Prisoners Until When”, calling for constitutional governance in Saudi Arabia.

Ante una represión estatal cada vez mayor, se vio obligado a abandonar Arabia Saudí en 2013. Pasó los años siguientes en Turquía (donde permanece su familia), Catar y Egipto, continuando su labor de incidencia y periodismo en el exilio. Quedó vinculado a la red de disidentes y periodistas saudíes en torno a Jamal Khashoggi, asesinado por agentes del Estado saudí en octubre de 2018.

In October 2021, following the expiry of his travel documents (which he could not renew without risk of Khashoggi’s fate at a Saudi consulate), he travelled on foot to Bulgaria and immediately applied for asylum. He has been in administrative immigration detention since that date — first at the Busmantsi detention centre in Sofia, later transferred to Lyubimets. He has never been charged with a criminal offence. Bulgarian courts have ordered his release twice; neither order was executed by the security services.

Desde la detención ha seguido escribiendo: ensayos, cartas y análisis geopolítico publicados en búlgaro, inglés, italiano y árabe, en medios como Marginalia, Melting Pot Europa, Substack y News.bg.