President-elect Joe Biden must push the country to release its political prisoners.
By Abdullah Alaoudh
Dec. 30, 2020
President Trump was an unabashed supporter of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia.Credit.Doug Mills/The New York Times
On Monday, a court in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, sentenced Loujain al-Hathloul, the Saudi activist, to five years and eight months in prison. Ms. al-Hathloul, who campaigned for the right of women to drive, was convicted of “trying to harm national security” and advancing “a foreign agenda.” She has already been in prison for two and a half years. A combination of time served and partial sentence suspension could lead to her release in a month or so.
Jailed Saudi Human Rights Activist Launches Open-Ended Hunger Strike Published December 29th, 2020 - 07:06 GMT
Mohammed Fahad al-Qahtani (Twitter)
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He was arrested in June 2012 as part of a wide crackdown on human rights advocates in the kingdom.
Prominent Saudi human rights campaigner Mohammed Fahad al-Qahtani has launched an open-ended hunger strike in protest against his harsh conditions at a notorious maximum-security detention center south of the capital, Riyadh.
Maha al-Qahtani, the wife of the activist, wrote in a post published on her Twitter page on Monday that her husband had entered the ninth day of the strike due to the stress placed on him by authorities at al-Ha’ir Prison.
Former economics professor Mohammed Fahad al-Qahtani becomes latest political detainee to challenge conditions at notorious Saudi facility
Mohammed Fahad al-Qahtani, a Saudi professor and human rights activist, has been detained since 2012 (Screengrab/Twitter) By Published date: 28 December 2020 14:30 UTC | Last update: 2 months 3 weeks ago
Jailed Saudi human rights activist Mohammed Fahad al-Qahtani has launched a hunger strike in protest against conditions at the notorious al-Hair prison, his wife confirmed on Monday. My husband entered the ninth day of the strike due to the stress on him by the al-Hair Correctional Department, Maha al-Qahtani tweeted.
She said the action was in protest at being denied the most basic rights, adding that her husband held Mohammed bin Ali al-Asmari, director-general of prisons in Saudi Arabia, fully responsible for threatening his health and life.
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