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.

Perante uma repressão estatal cada vez mais intensa, foi forçado a deixar a Arábia Saudita em 2013. Passou os anos seguintes na Turquia (onde a sua família permanece), no Catar e no Egito, continuando a sua defesa de causas e o seu jornalismo no exílio. Aproximou-se da rede de dissidentes e jornalistas sauditas em torno de Jamal Khashoggi, morto por agentes do Estado saudita em outubro 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.

A partir da detenção, continuou a escrever: ensaios, cartas e análise geopolítica publicados em búlgaro, inglês, italiano e árabe, em meios como a Marginalia, a Melting Pot Europa, o Substack e o News.bg.