Bulgaria: Saudi Activist at Risk of Deportation

By Human Rights Watch

(Beirut) – Bulgarian authorities should suspend any plans to deport Saudi human rights defender Abdulrahman al-Khalidi to Saudi Arabia, and should allow his resettlement to a third country, twenty organizations said today. Bulgarian authorities would violate the Bulgarian, European, and international law obligation of nonrefoulement, which bars returning someone to a country where they would risk facing torture or ill-treatment if they deport this highly visible critic of the Saudi government.Bulgaria’s National Security Agency issued an expulsion order against al-Khalidi in February…

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