Saudi Arabia executed journalist after 7 years in prison

Turkey Al-Jaser/Open Source photos

The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Internal Affairs announced the execution of the famous Saudi journalist Turkey Al Jasser, who spent seven years in prison on accusations of treason, cooperation with foreign structures, financing of terrorism and the threat of national security and unity.

Source: message Journalist protection committee (CPJ)

Details: Al-Jaser was arrested in 2018. The Saudi authorities suspected that he was standing on the social network X (then Twitter), which published allegations of corruption in the royal family.

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Saudi officials were accused of tracking X users and journalists, including Washington Post Columnist Jamal Hashoggi, who was killed at the Saudi Consulate at Istanbul in October 2018.

Al-Jasser was a well-known Saudi journalist who wrote on sensitive topics, including women’s rights, Arab Spring and corruption. He has now cooperated with the closed AL-TAQRIR newspaper and led a personal blog in 2013–2015.

During the imprisonment, the journalist was maintained, depriving the lawyer and the family. It is reported that he has undergone numerous forms of physical and psychological torture.

Software Director of the Committee for the Protection of Journalists Carlos Martinez de la Serna condemned the execution of the journalist, emphasizing that the impunity after the murder of Kolumnist Washington Post Jamal Hashoggi at the Saudi Arabia Consulate in Istanbul in 2018 created the conditions for further persecution of journalists.

Direct Language Martines de La Serna: « The international community, not providing justice in the case of Hashoggi, has betrayed not only one journalist. It only strengthened the confidence of the actual ruler – Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman – that he can continue to persecute the free press. »

Prehistory:

• According to the Committee for the Protection of Journalists in 2024, Saudi Arabia executed 330 people – almost twice as much as in 2023, which became the highest in decades. Since the beginning of 2025, more than 100 executions have already been carried out.
• According to the declassified report of American intelligence, the sedentary Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed Ben Salman approved the murder of a Saudi journalist Jamal Hashoggi in 2018.