Saudi Arabia

The Saudi authorities have released academic Khaled Alodah, brother of the prominent preacher and scholar Dr. Salman bin Fahd Alodah, after eight years of arbitrary detention. He had been arrested for sharing information about his brother’s arrest, who remains arbitrarily detained under inhumane conditions, despite a decision by the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) describing the detention of both brothers as a flagrant violation of international law. 

Alkarama has learned from Saudi human rights sources that the authorities have finally released Abdulaziz Al-Shubaily, a human rights activist and member of the Saudi Association for Civil and Political Rights (ACPRA), after nearly eight years of detention. 

Alkarama firmly condemns the execution of Saudi journalist and activist Turki Al-Jasser by the Saudi authorities, approximately seven years after his arrest and enforced disappearance on charges related to the exercise of his right to freedom of expression and opinion.