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02 November 2009

Saudi Arabia: Abdullah al-Nuaimy reappears, currently detained in Dammam Prison

Abdullah Majed Sayah al-Nuaimy, who was originally disappeared by Saudi authorities on 29 October 2008, has reappeared in a Saudi prison, according to sources. Alkarama received this update today, and now knows that he was in fact missing for a total six month after which news leaked at the end of April 2009 that he was being detained in Dammam Prison, Dammam, on the east coast of Saudi Arabia.

Abdullah al-Nuaimy was a former Guantanamo detainee, where he was detained for more than four years before being released on 5 November 2005. He was disappeared by Saudi security services while crossing the Saudi-Bahraini border at King Fahd Bridge on 29 October 2008. He was arrested without a warrant or reasons being given for his arrest. Alkarama had previously communicated his case on 30 January 2009 as an urgent appeal to the Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID).

At the beginning of August 2009, he was finally given visitation rights, however he remains arbitrarily detained at Dammam Prison. Alkarama sent a communication to the WGEID on 2 November 2009 informing them of his reappearance, and will continue to follow his case.

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