RIYADH: Saudi National Guard Minister Prince Abdullah bin Bandar on Thursday evening attended the graduation ceremony for students at King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences. Prince Abdullah was received by Bandar Al-Knawy, director of health affairs at the Ministry of National Guard and university president, upon his arrival at the King Khalid Military Academy
Geneva - Several experts joined a Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor webinar on the arrest of prominent Saudi economist Abdulaziz Al-Dakhil. al-Dakhil was arrested for the simple reason of criticizing the government’s economic policies and his .
Tuesday, 27 April 2021, 4:59 pm
Geneva – Nearly two dozen economic scholars from the
world s most prominent universities have signed a letter to
the Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz and his son, Crown
Prince Mohammed bin Salman, demanding the disclosure of
prominent Saudi economist Abdulaziz Al-Dakhil’s fate and
ensuring he has a fair trial and released if proven
innocent.
In the letter, the academics said the Saudi
authorities have been holding Al-Dakhil since April 2020,
after mourning the death of human rights activist and
reformist Abdullah Al-Hamid who was intentionally neglected
of medical care in prison.
The letter indicated that
Al-Dakhil was arbitrarily detained several times for
The night my father, economist Abdulaziz Al-Dakhil, was arrested last year, the authorities broke into our house with military force. They seized my father’s documents, money and assets and froze his bank accounts. Then he disappeared inside a “state security” prison.
My father is an economist and finance expert who had always been a perfect example of a law-abiding citizen. He was a deputy finance minister in the 1970s, but resigned in 1979 because he had come to realize the scale of corruption in the country and the depths of its governance problems. His only “crime” was exercising freedom of speech, eulogizing an imprisoned dissident and lauding transparency, accountability and democracy.
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