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.

Inför ett alltmer intensivt statligt förtryck tvingades han lämna Saudiarabien 2013. Han tillbringade de följande åren i Turkiet (där hans familj fortfarande finns), Qatar och Egypten och fortsatte sitt påverkans- och journalistiska arbete i exil. Han kom att förknippas med nätverket av saudiska dissidenter och journalister kring Jamal Khashoggi, som dödades av saudiska 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.

Från förvaret har han fortsatt att skriva: essäer, brev och geopolitiska analyser publicerade på bulgariska, engelska, italienska och arabiska, i kanaler som Marginalia, Melting Pot Europa, Substack och News.bg.