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DATE : 07/05/ 1998 NO
: 72 / H / 98
The Saudi Authority is a Record full
of Human Rights Violations Despite the worse record and
black history of Saudi regime in the field of human rights and in spite of its
disclosure and appearance of its lies, deception and shirking of obligation of
international treaties and their articles , despite all that the Saudi regime
still denies the facts which are clear for all. In order to silence the voices
, shut the mouths , hide the facts and to avoid the international pressure, the
Saudi regime began to buy some mortal consciences which are affected of the
sparkle of dollars and riyals, or threats the effective governments with
economic interests. The human rights situation
will become worse if the Regime still commits crimes and attacks against people
and residents before the eyes and in the hearing of the world without any
protest from anyone or taking serious measures to stop the Regime's abuses . The Regime will continue its
hostile way towards people particularly there are no clear laws or written
constitution which protects human rights . The country is ruled by royal
decrees and individuals decisions which take into the consideration the
interests of Royal family. The last few days have
witnessed a severe campaign by the Regime against the religious scholars who
some of them are still held in custody for many years and subjected to
psychological and physical torture and the Regime aims to set these scholars
aside and to prohibit them to exercise their role among people. All that done
for political and sectarian considerations. The Saudi authorities
arrested Sheikh Ahmad al-Khalifa a
39 - year – old , a religious scholar from Ihsaa Province, at a borderline
check- point and then some members of al-Mabahith al-`Amma have deported him to
the custody without informing him the reasons of the arrest . Sheikh al-Khalifa was
returning from Qom in Iran where he has been for many years to pursue his
religious studies. It is worth mentioning that
the Prince of Eastern Province (Mohammad bin Fahad) has issued a cruel decision
imposing arrest and confiscating of passport of everyone who traveled abroad
for studying religious studies or visiting holy shrines in Iraq or Iran. As a
result of this unfair decision, the Regime has confiscated passports of scores
scholars and citizens. Our committee has known names of some individuals who
were included in that decision , they are: 1 . Sheikh Mousa al-Sultan,
aged 35 , a religious scholar and
a prominent preacher from Ihsaa. 2 . Sheikh Ahmad al-Shahab,
aged 35 , a religious scholar from Ihsaa. 3 . Sheikh Ahmad al-Shayib,
aged 33, a religious scholar and a
prominent preacher from Ihsaa. 4 . Sheikh Ahmad al-Ma'ayoof
, aged 32, a religious scholar from Ihsaa. 5 . Sheikh Yousif
al-Nazzal, a religious scholar
from Ihsaa. 6 . Sheikh Salih Shihab,
aged 27, a religious scholar from Jaroudiyah village of Qatif. 7 . Sheikh Mohammad
Dirweesh, a religious scholar from Qatif . 8 . Sheikh Mortaza Abdul
Jaleel al-Maa, aged 23, a religious scholar from Tarout in al-Qatif . 9 . Sheikh Abdul Rasool
al-Dirweesh , a religious scholar from Qatif. 10 . Sayyid Anwer
al-Khadhrawi, a religious scholar from Qatif. 11 . Sheikh Fayiz al-Awazim,
a religious scholar from Qatif. 12 . Sheikh Mohammad
al-Nattar , a religious scholar from Qatif. 13 . Sheikh Ali Al Habeeb ,
aged 40 , a religious scholar, from Snabis village in Tarout al-Qatif. 14 . Sheikh Ali al-Juneibi,
a religious scholar from al-Qatif. 15 . Sheikh Hussein al-Atal,
a religious scholar from al-Qatif . 16 . Sheikh Feisal al-Arfan
, a religious scholar from al-Qatif. It is worth mentioning that
some Ulema and religious scholars and citizens who were former prisoners or
have studied religious studies abroad are still banned to travel despite their
frequent requests to return their passports but the Regime didn't give them
legal excuse for that inhuman measure. On one hand, reliable
sources have stated to our committee
that the situation of some detainees in Saudi prisons became very bad
due to brutal torture and ill- treatment . Some of them have been deported to
the hospitals more times and among them were Sayyid Hashim Mohammad al-Shakhs
and Sheikh Abdul Kareem Kadhem al-Hubeil and the citizen Abdullah al-Jarrash. |