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Saudi Arabia: Young Saudi sentenced to life imprisonment is denied access to medical care and subjected to physical and psychological tortures
KSA - News | 26 September 2012
Suleiman Al Ayed, 29 year-old Saudi national, has been imprisoned in Al-Hayer prison, in Riyadh, for eight years. For five years, he was detained without any legal proceedings, held in solitary confinement in the dark and severely tortured. Today, Mr Al Ayed's psychological and physical condition is seriously alarming, yet the Saudi authorities have continuously refused to give him access to medical care.
Saudi Arabia: An appeal to King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz to protect the prisoners of al-Hayer, and a violent intervention by the Emergency Forces
KSA - News | 13 August 2012
Mr Ali bin Abdullah bin Ali al-Zamel, a brother of a prisoner in al-Hayer, sent an appeal letter to King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz and members of the Saudi ruling class, to the High Commissioner for Human Rights and to local human rights organisations, asking them all to intervene in order to protect the prisoners of al-Hayer who have been in a sit-in for many weeks, and to respond to their legitimate demands which Alkarama had espoused, particularly releasing prisoners of arbitrary detentions which fill the Kingdom's prisons. Mr Ali al-Zamel's brother, Mr Fahd Abdullah Ali al-Zamel has been a prisoner of al-Hayer prison ward number 3 for nine years without any legal proceedings.
Saudi Arabia: Human rights activists call on King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz to release Khaled Al Omair and Mohamed Al Bjady
KSA - News | 07 August 2012
A group of Saudi human rights activists wrote a letter on 5 August 2012 to King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, Crown Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz, and Interior Minister Prince Ahmad Bin Abdulaziz, asking them to release Khaled bin Suleiman Al Omeir and Mohamed bin Salih Al Bjady, two prisoners of conscience, and all other individuals arbitrarily detained in the Kingdom.
Saudi Arabia: Arrest and arbitrary detention of two French citizens
KSA - News | 17 September 2010
Cherif Al Karoui and Hichem Matri, two French nationals who travelled to Saudi Arabia and were arrested on 27 May 2010, are currently being held in Al-Hayr prison in total isolation from the outside world. They have learned that they are suspected of terrorist activity without any charges officially being brought against them and without being brought before a judge.
Saudi Arabia: UN asked to intervene with Saudi Authorities to stop flogging of Egyptian woman
KSA - News | 06 August 2012
