NORMAN CIGAR
In recent days, the focus on human rights with respect to Saudi Arabia, understandably, has centered on the disappearance and brutal murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. In many ways, to be sure, the Khashoggi case speaks to the whole human rights issue in Saudi Arabia and has represented a poignant “teaching moment.” While the Khashoggi case deserves an extensive and detailed study of its own, given its importance and its repercussions, there are also additional aspects of the human rights environment in Saudi Arabia that serve as the background against which such individual incidents can best be analyzed and understood. One element of that environment that merits particular attention is that of the intersection between human rights and the fight against terrorism, which is the subject of the present study. This is an area that overlaps with the Khashoggi case, as will be seen later, but also one that has a broader intellectual, legal, political, and humanitarian impact and implications.
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