Human rights activists
Bin Salman heads a repressive authoritarian regime in Saudi Arabia. Human rights activists and women's rights activists in Saudi Arabia routinely face abuse and torture by the regime. Critics, journalists and former insiders are tortured and killed. The regime has targeted Saudi dissidents who are located abroad, most famously Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist, who was murdered by the regime. Bin Salman has justified the mass arrests of human rights activists as being as necessary for enacting reforms in Saudi Arabia.