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.

Face à une répression d'État croissante, il a été contraint de quitter l'Arabie saoudite en 2013. Il a passé les années suivantes en Turquie (où sa famille demeure), au Qatar et en Égypte, poursuivant son plaidoyer et son travail journalistique en exil. Il s'est rapproché du réseau de dissidents et de journalistes saoudiens autour de Jamal Khashoggi, tué par des agents de l'État saoudien en octobre 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.

Depuis sa détention, il a continué d'écrire : essais, lettres et analyses géopolitiques publiés en bulgare, anglais, italien et arabe, dans des médias tels que Marginalia, Melting Pot Europa, Substack et News.bg.