Inside the Kingdom of Fear: The Shocking Truth about Saudi Arabia's Human Rights Abuses

bro im from saudi arabia ,70% of the things he said are so wrong, like women's educational chances are "purposefully" being limited, all my sisters have jobs and 2 of them have masters degree, one of them just bought her own car, also finding a job as a woman is easier, dont believe everything.

America’s best friend.

Tell me a SINGLE muslim country that DOES NOT have horrible human rights abuses. I'll wait.

god what a s**hole country

The KINGDOM of Saudi Arabia. ❤ hate what u cant have.😂

basically the US in the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century

I watch this guys mega projects I never knew he had such outdated information

LOL. Nothing you said is true, not even close ! Damn, how easy is to deceive these fools, but why is it not easy when most of these "civilized" citizens in the West are alcoholic and psychiatric drugs are like candy and the father smokes weed then pass it to his son?
Their music about, who use drugs the most , and who can get naked the most.
In Western's culture, the younger doesn't respect the elder and make fun of his age, and children do not respect who raised them. What a culture .

Claiming freedom of speech, but you're not allowed to express your opinion about LGBTQ, Jews, or Zionists! But it is OK to criticize religions that followed by 3/4 of the planet's population and to overthrow your government to create instability.

Most of Western's countries were established on the shedding of bloods of indigenous citizens, and their development was funded by stealing African gold, energy of the Middle East, and spices of India ,and now you are who's going to teach us about human rights ? Really!!
What Israel is doing today is following your teaching and does exactly what the West was doing a century ago, meaning in the future we will see Israel preaching human rights and equality ! 🤣
What a JOKE

What happens when you ask someone to build things for you and then you abuse them. Let's say you're abuse to me and then ask me to fix the brakes on your car. Is that a smart idea? What if they are professionals like civil engineers designing major structures like roads and bridges. Do you just hire anyone to do that? do you abuse them financially or otherwise? Is that a good idea? if you think it is I have a free train ride and some striped pajamas for you. I worked really hard on it because I saw how honest, hard working, and how good of a person you are. I worked really hard because you're an alpha and a great leader. It's a really smart thing to do, to just to business management and accounting and bite the hands that feed you. you should just count the money, and look at the fasade and not worry about people who actually can and do analyze things.

Saudi Arabia is the religious version of North Korea. This is why religion that claims it's peaceful or any religion for that matter needs to stay out of the government unless it positively adds to laws and the judicial system.

On 5 August 1990, the Cairo Declaration of Human Rights in Islam (CDHRI) provided the 45 signatories and all of their citizens with a set of human rights based on an undefined interpretation of Shari’a law. The CDHRI clearly limits the rights enshrined in the UDHR.
On 29 March to 2 April 1993, the Bangkok Declaration attended by 34 Asian states (plus Palestine) saw "Asian values" codified and promoted. The Bangkok Declaration clearly limits the rights enshrined in the UDHR.
So it seems the 1948 UDHR is in 2023 no longer as 'universal' as it once was, if much of the world is saying that exceptions MUST be made to allow for religious and cultural beliefs. Therefore we cannot criticize Saudi Arabia?

In fact you are sharing an agenda against Saudi Arabia and I'm really sure that deep in your heart you don't care about Saudi human rights that you are talking about because you have Double standards so don't complain about what is going on in Saudi Arabia, firstly it is one of the safest countries in the world and secondly women in Saudi are treated much better than the west. It’s a country that is growing and trying to develop its economy in order to make better life for its people. By the way I don’t see u talking about what’s happening in gaza war crimes, hospital bombing , killing civilians, murders everyday , children dying, women raped and killed. U better talk about human shits not rights because I believe u interested in this thing .

all i hear is Ws

Annnnnnnnnndddd......... FIFA might give them the World Cup...🤔
Brown envelopes anyone????

Everything I am hearing in this video would even make repressive Russia much more free and much less oppressive compared to Saudi Arabia-even with Russia's unprovoked attack on Ukraine. With everything said in this video, if I were forced to choose between Russia and Saudi Arabia to reside in, I would MOST DEFINITELY choose Russia. Also, While USA may be one of worst countries in western developed world to live in due to a lack of social safety nets and no form of universal healthcare unlike rest of western developed world, I would MOST DEFINITELY choose USA where I reside over Saudi Arabia for USA despite its flaws here, Saudi Arabia is one of those countries where it is MUCH MORE FAR WORSE than USA and Russia as well! In both USA and Russia, they respect a variety of religions and DEFINITELY do not beat and shackle foreign employees and have much better HUMAN RIGHTS compared to Saudi Arabia-even if you would take into consideration the anti LBGTQ ruling in Russian Supreme Court. I have always told myself, if world leaders are sanctioning Russia for the attack on Ukraine, the world leaders also need to MOST DEFINITELY sanction Saudi Arabia for the HORRIBLE human rights violations and world depending on oil elsewhere instead of Saudi Arabia. There are leaders and business people in international community also now helping to build the controversial NEOM city and its over hundred mile long line as well. The business people and political leaders helping out with NEOM should also abandon the NEOM project due to Saudi Arabias human rights violations.
Makes no sense that Russia gets sanctioned while international and business leaders buddy up to Saudi Arabia and that crown prince HORRIBLE EVIL MONSTER now leading Saudi Arabia letting all the human rights violations of Saudi Arabia slide by! Russia and Saudi Arabia BOTH need sanctioning with encouragement for their citizens who don't agree with what is going on in both Russia and Saudi Arabia to leave both countries with asylum programs set up in many parts of world for those fleeing Russia and Saudi Arabia alike alongside the asylum programs in place for those fleeing Ukraine, Syria, Uganda, etc...
On a note: Thank goodness I live in USA despite its still ongoing flaws for I know I can post this comment without fear of arrest, torture and being sentenced to death where in Saudi Arabia, a comment like mine here would most likely would result in those HORRIBLE things there! Also, I have heard and read through the years of horror stories of even foreign employees being beaten, shackled, and chained just for reporting something out of place.
Thanks for this video!

All because of religion of peace

You lied. We Saudis, as a people and a government, have a system, and that system depends on our Islamic religion, which is respect for all religions. As a young Saudi, we have no racism, whether ethnic or religious. We Saudis respect those who respect us and love those who love us. We Saudis live a happy and dignified life and love our government.

Western hypocrisy at its finest 👌🏻

Human beings are dying in Palestine but who cares
Let talk about human rights in Saudi arabia😂
You are just living in a bubble.

All this, and FIFA is still giving them the World Cup. I wonder how much Saudi Arabia paid off Australia to withdraw.

And yet FIFA think its a great idea to give them a World Cup. Who's more corrupt, Saudi Arabia or FIFA?

The Saudis are just as bad, if not worse, than Iran. Their brutal monarch orders the assassinations of people outside the country, which his security services carry out, for the slightest offence. Their official national religion, their specific interpretation of Islam called Wahhabism, is also the direct inspiration for groups like Al Qaeda and ISIS. Yet somehow the western governments treat them as allies, and quickly sweep their abuses under the rug when they are inconveniently brought up. It just proves that which countries the West chooses to consider friends, and which to invade or sanction, has nothing to do with democracy or human rights, and never has.

Oh, and western social media companies like Facebook and the owners of this website, along with western intelligence agencies, actively help the Saudi government unmask and track down online dissidents within their country, usually leading to their execution, mutilation, or long term imprisonment. So the West is certainly not trying to encourage reform.

Saudi Arabia is LITERALLY the worst place to be that’s not North Korea, but don’t worry they’re on the “Humans Right Council”. Lol West has a strange interpretation of humor

Citizens are still restricted from freedom of speech, you can’t speak your opinion of the government

Turkey, a NATO country, is in the top 10 of countries with large slave populations. Saudi is in the top 5. Why do we support these nations.

Slavery is still a thing in Arab countries. As it has for 1000s of years. Saudi didn't outlaw it until the 1960's. And "outlaw". Domestic servants from Africa are still a thing ... And you can still find castrated slaves being sold online. Why isn't any antislavery groups fighting this. Instead of supporting terrorists in Palestine.

Of course Saudi Arabia gets to host a FIFA World Cup.

We dont care 🇸🇦🇸🇦🇸🇦

The UN under pressure from Jewish and miscellaneous humanitarian organizations drafted the bill of universal human rights. It was forced on the rest of the world. There is no absolute moral canon.

And progressive's still bend over for islam.. I. dont. get. it.

Appo-stahsy.

The sad part is the immigrants usually get their passport confiscated by those same sponsors as retaliation esp if they’re trying to leave and this also gives an opportunity for human traffickers who prey on immigrants who want a job to provide for their families back home they say it’s a job opportunity and will provide sponsors but little do they kno those sponsors have officially bought them to be sex slaves

Why the hell would anyone want to travel to work in a country like that?!

This is exactly what the xSTAINs are saying they'll do in the US if they gain power. In Murfreesboro, Tennessee, they recently made "public homosexuality" illegal. Yes, holding your same-sex partner's hand is a jailable offense in that sh*thole of a town.

It's fascinating how ignorant you people are. You don't know anything about Saudi Arabia. Please educate yourself before you talk about my country. Believe me, if you know how blessed we are, you would wish that you've been born as a Saudi.

my question is why go there? money must be good. Women homosexuality freedom of speech leave that shit at home or your fucked just a thought.

Showcase the "human rights" that the Palestinians have been denied by isreal. 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

The ban on "woman drivers" should not be baned, it even should be enforced around the world 🤣..... (Sarcasm)

As a Saudi myself, i support changes for more human rights, i feel free speech can be a good and bad thing tbh
But ima say something, the people here are good hearted. Women are actually respected and defended by the people. People are willing to help each other. The people are good but the government is bad tbh

I want to thank the western news for helping me relise that they are full of sh*t, i live in saudi and i leave my car keys inside the car, but when i visted Europe for vacation ( England, turkey) there are thiefs that sole something from me.

Anyone who says there is no human rights in saudi, you are brainwashed my friend.

all good to me

Well I'm in USA and that's what Happened to me so......

What about Latin American countries.....is everything fine there ...teenage pregnancy, murder by boyfriends, rape and sexual exploiting etc....😊

This is true but like back in 1980’s.. It’s not the case anymore! No one gets amputated for stealing or drug abuse. The Govt encourages women to work and be more independent. The policies literally pushes companies to hire more women. The guardianship thing is long abolished..Also the court system is transparent and everything is documented which is archived and can be read on MOJ website.Hope if the script was slightly well researched!

which is worse- iran or saudi arabia?

With SA for an ally, we don’t need enemies!

I lived in Saudi Riyadh as a kid. I have so many stories but from what it looks like now, life is a lot better now for Saudis' than it was in the 80s... believe it or not 🙈 everyone has social media and it has affected the leadership changes.
Even educated Western expats had/have to give up their passport. The country is heading in such a bad direction economically they will be forced to use women more to make up for the lack of GDP outside of oil. In 50- 100 years Saudi will become a basket case and they know it.
I am just waiting here quietly to see it all fall apart 😅

Bar Indonesia and Malaysia there is not another Muslim country I would wish to visit. If they're not at war, they have this abnormal bulls--t to comply with. No thanks. I want to enjoy the norms of my home country when in someone elses.

The UN is utterly useless