Save the Hundreds of Prisoners of Conscience

and Faith in Saudi Prisons

The serial of arbitrary arrests in Arabian Peninsula is still continuous including numerous number of people taking no consideration to the Islamic and human laws and norms particularly if we take into consideration that the Saudi regime has adopted an extraordinary policy with the people that does not match with any international law or principle.

This policy may expose the public freedoms and rights to danger. Some people were arrested because of their religious activities which are contrary to the Regime’s Religious Establishment, and others were killed for the same reasons as it happened to the citizen Ahmad bin Ahmad al-Mulablab from Jefar Village in Ihsaa when he killed on 20/11/1998 in the prison of the so - called Committee for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (CPVPV) because he was calling to prayer in a way which was contrary to the way of the Religious Establishment. But we didn’t notice any reaction from the parties that we called on them about that crime.

Some of the citizens were arrested due to their attitude towards the Regime’s foreign and interior polices , others were arrested due to possession religious or political book which is not agree with the Regime’s policy. Others were arrested for any suspicion not depend on legal proof and the result was holding incommunicado for months or years denied the right of defense or fair trial.

During the last two months , the Saudi Arabia witnessed a massive campaign of arrests against the citizens through the country , among them are:

1. The citizen Abdullah Ibrahim al-Bahhar ,a 31- year - old , an employee from Rabe`yah village in Tarout , al-Qatif.

2. The citizen Ali Al-Jawad , aged 27 ,university student from al-Qatif.

3. The citizen Mohammad Al- Ghizwi ,agead 25, a student from al-Qatif.

4. The citizen Na `eem Mokhil ,aged 27 ,from Sihat town of al- Qatif.

5. The citizen Mohammad Abdul Raheem al-Saygh , aged 26 ,an employee from Sihat town in al- Qatif.

6. The citizen fo`aod Abdullah al-Ramis , aged 24, a university student from al-Qatif.

7. The citizen Ali Miden ,aged 30 ,an employee from al-Qatif.

8. Sayyid Majid Sayyid Alawi al- Sada, aged 25, a university student form al-Qatif.

Before several days the Saudi authorities arrested the female citizen (Suha Abdullah al-Mas`ari) aged 33 , from al- Riyadh. She was arrested at Jaddeh Airport upon her return to Saudi Arabia from London. She is as the hundreds of citizens who are still held in the Regime’s Prisons of al-Ha`ir and al-Dammam without sin solely the arbitrariness of the Regime and its denial of people’s rights.

We appeal again every conscientious and honest to spare no effort of saving the hundreds of detainees who have been subjected to the cruel psychological and physical torture in Saudi prisons and jails. We call on setting up an international committee to visit the Saudi prisons, fact- finding and to ask the scores of scholars and the hundreds of citizens, who are still held in custody, about the reasons of their detention for many months and years and notice the marks of torture which are clear on their bodies, this might undermine the Regime’s credibility on singing some international human rights treaties