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.

Stilt overfor stadig sterkere statlig undertrykkelse ble han tvunget til å forlate Saudi-Arabia i 2013. De påfølgende årene tilbrakte han i Tyrkia (der familien hans fortsatt er), Qatar og Egypt, og fortsatte påvirkningsarbeidet og journalistikken i eksil. Han ble knyttet til nettverket av saudiske dissidenter og journalister rundt Jamal Khashoggi, som ble drept av saudiske statsagenter i oktober 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.

Fra forvaringen har han fortsatt å skrive: essays, brev og geopolitiske analyser publisert på bulgarsk, engelsk, italiensk og arabisk, i medier som Marginalia, Melting Pot Europa, Substack og News.bg.