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Jailed Saudi Human Rights Activist Launches Open-Ended Hunger Strike
Published December 29th, 2020 - 07:06 GMT
Mohammed Fahad al-Qahtani (Twitter)
Highlights
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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