Violence against women in Saudi Arabia

Princess Mashaal bint Fahd al Saud (1958 – 15 July 1977; Arabic: الأميرة مشاعل بنت فهد بن محمد بن عبدالعزيز آل سعود‎) was a member of the House of Saud who was executed by gunshot for committing adultery in 1977, at the age of 19. She was a daughter of Fahd bin Muhammed bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and a granddaughter of Prince Muhammad bin Abdulaziz, who was an older brother of King Khalid (the then-Saudi king) and a son of King Abdulaziz, the founder of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Death of a Princess is a British 1980 drama-documentary produced by ATV in cooperation with WGBH in the United States. The drama is based on the true story of Princess Mishaal, a young Saudi Arabian princess and her lover who had been publicly executed for adultery. Its depiction of the customs of Saudi Arabia led some Middle Eastern governments to oppose its broadcast under threat of damaging trade relations.

Loujain al-Hathloul (Arabic: لجين الهذلول‎ Lujjayn al-Hadhlūl; born 31 July 1989) is a Saudi women's rights activist, a social media figure, and a political prisoner. She is a graduate of the University of British Columbia. Al-Hathloul has been arrested and released on several occasions for defying the ban on women driving in Saudi Arabia and was arrested in May 2018, with several prominent women's rights activists, on the charge of "attempting to destabilise the kingdom" after being effectively kidnapped in the United Arab Emirates. As of October 2018, her husband, Saudi stand-up comedian Fahad Albutairi, had also been forcefully returned from Jordan to the Kingdom and was under arrest.

Rahaf Mohammed (formerly Rahaf Mohammed Mutlaq al-Qunun Ash-Shimmiry; Arabic: رهف محمد مطلق القنون الشمري) is a Saudi refugee who was detained by Thai authorities on 5 January 2019 while transiting through Bangkok airport, en route from Kuwait to Australia.

Tuti Tursilawati (6 June 1984 in Cikeusik, West Java, Indonesia – 29 October 2018 in Ta'if) was an Indonesian housekeeper who was executed on October 29, 2018 in Saudi Arabia. In 2011 she was convicted of the murder of her employer Suud Malhaq Al Utaibi, who she had been serving since 2009 and who had allegedly sexually abused her. According to her, on May 11, 2010 she killed him in self-defense when he tried to rape her.

Dina Ali Lasloom (Arabic: دينا علي السلوم‎; born 29 March 1993) is a Saudi woman who attempted to seek asylum in Australia to escape Saudi guardianship laws but was forcibly repatriated to Saudi Arabia from the Philippines. She was stopped in transit at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila on 10 April 2017 and sent back to Saudi Arabia on 11 April 2017.

Fawza Falih Muhammad Ali was a Saudi woman who made international headlines after she was condemned to death for practicing witchcraft in 2006. In April 2011, Saudi authorities reported that she had died in 2010.

Awdah Ahmad Awdah Salem (died August 7, 2014), known as The Yanbu Serial Killer, was a Yemeni serial killer who killed three Indonesian housemaids in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia between 2007 and 2009. He was convicted and subsequently executed for his crimes in 2014.

On March 11, 2002, a fire at a girls' school in Mecca, Saudi Arabia killed fifteen people, all young girls. Complaints were made that that Saudi Arabia's "religious police", specifically the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, had prevented schoolgirls from leaving the burning building and hindered rescue workers because the students were not wearing modest clothing and, possibly, because they lacked a male escort. The actions of the religious police were condemned both inside the country and internationally. Saudi government inquiry concluded that religious educational authorities were responsible for neglecting fire safety of the school, but rejected the accusation that the actions of religious police contributed to the deaths. In the aftermath, authority for administration of girls' schools was removed from an agency controlled by conservative clerics and placed under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education.