Transnational Repression on EU Soil
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Three concrete actions you can take in fifteen minutes. Templates, contacts, and social-media kit.

Why now

Detention has now passed four and a half years. Each detention extension brings a renewed deportation risk and a further factual ground for the European Court of Human Rights case.

Three actions

In fifteen minutes

1. Write to your Member of the European Parliament. Ask them to co-sign or echo the existing MEP letters and to raise the case in plenary or committee.

2. Write to your foreign ministry and your embassy in Sofia. Ask them to raise the case bilaterally with Bulgarian counterparts.

3. Share the case on social media using the hashtags #FreeAlKhalidi and #TransnationalRepression. Tag relevant rapporteurs and Members.

Three demands

What to ask for

Immediate release

End administrative detention. Bulgarian courts have ordered release; those orders must be executed.

International protection

Recognise international protection or arrange safe resettlement to a third country.

No refoulement

Suspend any deportation procedure and end the constructive refoulement created by the national-security classification and the SIS alert.

Email template

Copy and adapt for your representative

Tap inside the box, select all, and copy. You can then adapt the introduction and personal paragraph before sending.

Social media post

Short version for X / Bluesky / LinkedIn

4+ years in administrative detention in Bulgaria. 2 court orders for release ignored. 3 Supreme Court rulings overturning asylum refusals. A case pending in Strasbourg. Saudi human rights defender Abdulrahman Al-Khalidi must be released. https://free-alkhalidi.org #FreeAlKhalidi #TransnationalRepression
Who to contact

Useful institutional contacts

Your MEP — search by country at europarl.europa.eu/meps.

Your foreign ministry — request a démarche raising the case with Bulgaria.

Your embassy in Sofia — ask for engagement at the bilateral level.

European Commission · DG HOME — for asylum-law compliance issues.

EU Special Representative for Human Rights — for human-rights defenders concerns.

More

Open the next page

See the documents page for the supporting record, the ECHR case page for procedural status, and the international voices page for the network of public interventions on the case.

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