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2025 · International coverage

English-language press

HRRC

Multiple Human Rights Organizations Urge Bulgaria to Halt Deportation

Author: Human Rights Research Center

Summary of the 20+ NGO appeal to halt deportation.

14 Nov 2025
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Middle East Monitor

Bulgaria authorities defy court order, continue unlawful detention

Author: Middle East Monitor

Coverage of continued detention after a court order.

2 Apr 2025
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Balkan Insight

Bulgaria Still Detaining Saudi Activist Despite Court Release Order

Author: Svetoslav Todorov

Report on continued detention despite a court release order.

1 Apr 2025
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Human Rights Watch

Bulgaria: Saudi Activist at Risk of Deportation

Author: Human Rights Watch

Statement by 20 organisations calling for Bulgaria to suspend deportation.

10 Mar 2025
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Melting Pot Europa

Abdulrahman Al-Khalidi is at serious risk of deportation

Author: Melting Pot Europa

Article on deportation risk and the reclassification of detention.

Apr 2025
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Novinite

MEPs Demand Action on Bulgaria’s Continued Detention

Author: Novinite

English-language Bulgarian coverage of MEP concern.

2025
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2024 · French, Polish, Italian press

European press

Mediapart

Un activiste saoudien menacé d’expulsion par la Bulgarie

Author: Maïa Courtois

French investigation on deportation risk and Saudi reach in Europe.

4 Nov 2024
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Salam Lab

Saudyjski dysydent Abdulrahman Al-Khalidi musi być wolny

Author: Salam Lab

Polish article arguing that the Saudi dissident must be free.

7 Nov 2024
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Courrier des Balkans

Bulgarie: un dissident saoudien sur le point d’être déporté

Author: Courrier des Balkans

French-language article on deportation risk.

5 Dec 2024
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Foreign Policy

A Hunger Strike in the Schengen Zone

Author: Ashira Morris

Long-form article on detention, deportation order, and hunger strike.

4 Sep 2024
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2024 · Bulgarian press

Bulgarian-language coverage

Свободна Европа

Бит ли е саудитски дисидент в Бусманци?

Author: Свободна Европа

Bulgarian-language report on alleged beating and the call for investigation.

5 Apr 2024
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Тоест

Между чука на корупцията и наковалнята на бюрокрацията

Author: Светла Енчева

Bulgarian article on why Bulgaria seeks to expel the Saudi dissident.

11 Mar 2024
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Тоест

Над две седмици гладна стачка

Author: Светла Енчева

Bulgarian article on the hunger strike and accusations against the authorities.

24 Jul 2024
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Свободна Европа

„Свобода или смърт": Как един саудитски дисидент се бори

Author: Павела Костова

Bulgarian report on the hunger strike and deportation case.

20 Sep 2024
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Свободна Европа

„Започва да губи дух". Петиция поиска освобождаването

Author: Свободна Европа

Report on the petition submitted to the Bulgarian President and Council of Ministers.

7 Oct 2024
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Маргиналия

Срамно решение на АССГ за Абдулрахман ал-Халиди

Author: Маргиналия

Bulgarian commentary on a Sofia Administrative Court decision.

11 Sep 2024
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Маргиналия

Абдулрахман ал-Халиди — тест за българската съвест

Author: Маргиналия

Bulgarian article framing the case as a test of Bulgarian conscience.

26 Oct 2024
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Маргиналия

Това е дългата ръка на Саудитска Арабия в Европа

Author: Маргиналия / Mediapart

Bulgarian coverage of French reporting on Saudi reach in Europe.

8 Nov 2024
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2024 · International alert

HRW and Balkan Insight

Human Rights Watch

Bulgaria: Don’t Deport Saudi Activist

Author: Human Rights Watch

HRW article warning against deportation to Saudi Arabia.

7 Mar 2024
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Balkan Insight

Bulgarians Call For Release of Saudi Dissident on Hunger Strike

Author: Svetoslav Todorov

Coverage of Sofia protest and hunger strike.

5 Jul 2024
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