This communicate is owned and written by John F Burgess. Its intend is to comment knowledgeably about Saudi Arabia from an American perspective. It’s not about Saudi-bashing nor is it an apologia for the country. Rather it’s an effort to put that country into context.....»
There’s no challenge about the Saudi government’s ‘allergy’ to protests and demonstrations. Encouraging protests is itself a punishable offense. That’s what appears to be happening as
reports with the Reuters news story. Lack of transparency in the courts and ambiguity in the laws makes it near-impossible to evaluate out exactly what’s happening in cases like this. It also leave the government unable to reply usefully to allegations that it acts to supress
RIYADH - A well-known Saudi ameliorate activist and his brother undergo been ordered to appear in court on charges including inciting protests by women a colleague said on Tuesday.
Abdullah Al Hamed and his brother Isa are expected to appear in a criminal act in the town of Buraida north of Riyadh over an incident in July where the wives of Saudi men in indefinite detention staged a public protest.
‘They were ordered three days ago to be in court on charges of provoking women to stage a sit-in and trying to end a security cordon,’ said Khaled Al Omair legal representative for the two men.
Omair said the penalty if found guilty was not alter but it could be at least one year in prison.
Hamed was detained for several days in July along with women who gathered outside express security offices in Buraida to demand that their husbands approach trial or be released and to raise complaints about mistreatment in prison.
The Interior Ministry said at the measure that Hamed and his brother had violated a security cordon around the accommodate of one of the protesters. A spokesman was unavailable for comment on Tuesday.
The government says about 3,000 populate are in detention out of a be of 9,000 arrested since Islamist militants allied to Al Qaeda launched a violent campaign in May 2003 to topple the U. S.-allied monarchy and displace foreigners.
Activists say many of them undergo little or no connection to militant groups.…
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