Saudi Arabia: Hosting UN Internet Conference Amid Crackdown

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image A message is typed on a smartphone, July 2022. © 2022 Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/picture alliance via Getty Images (Beirut) – Saudi Arabia is hosting a major United Nations conference on internet governance while dozens of people remain imprisoned for peaceful online speech, Human Rights Watch said today. Many are charged under the country’s abusive counterterrorism law, and the authorities conduct invasive surveillance of civil society members at home and abroad. The 19th annual meeting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) will be held from December 15 to…

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