caseload-and-shift · ohchr-ahrc-40-52-add2-saudi-visit

according to figures made available to the Special Rapporteur, by January 2016, the court had tried 2,225 cases involving 6,122 defendants. The Special Rapporteur was reliably informed that the Court had initially focused on allegations of political violence linked to Al-Qaida. However, this began to change in 2010 and for the past eight years the Court has been increasingly used for the prosecution of human rights and political activists.