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Saudi preacher Yousef al-Ahmad has been sentenced to four years in prison, human rights organisations have confirmed.
Ahmad, an Islamic scholar and academic, has been detained since September 2017, when Saudi authorities arrested a number of preachers and intellectuals, including popular cleric Salman al-Odah.
Odah s son confirmed Ahmad s sentencing to Middle East Eye on Thursday. The news on him is true. He has been sentenced to four years imprisonment, Abdullah al-Odah, who is research director at DAWN, said.
We Record, a rights organisation that monitors abuses in the MENA region, reported that Ahmad had been given a four-year sentence, followed by a four-year travel ban.
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.
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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.