Human Rights Watch said it had also reviewed a 2018 Saudi lower court trial judgment in the case, which named six co-defendants, while al-Hasani – who was not in the country at the time of the trial – was labelled by prosecutors as a co-conspirator throughout the trial.
“In its ruling, the court stated that there was no evidence to convict the six co-defendants, but it nevertheless sentenced all of them to three months in prison in a discretionary ruling, which the Saudi legal system allows,” Human Rights Watch said in a statement.
“A September 2019 affidavit from the Justice Ministry, however, noted that following the lower court ruling and appeals ruling, all six co-defendants, as well as al-Hasani, had been cleared of all wrongdoing in the case due to lack of evidence presented by prosecutors.
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Australian Osama al-Hasani devastated when told he will be extradited to Saudi Arabia
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Osama al-Hasani with his wife Hana al-Hasani and their baby in Turkey.
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The wife of Osama al-Hasani, an Australian man facing extradition to Saudi Arabia, has redoubled her emotional pleas for the Australian Government to do more to help her husband detained in a Moroccan prison.
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DFAT says they are providing consular support to Mr al-Hasani
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Mrs al-Hasani said Australian consular officials had assured her they were doing what they could but she said she had not heard yet directly from the Australian ambassador to Morocco, Michael Cutts.