DATE : 23 / 05 / 1999
NO : 82 / H / 99
On 06 / 02 / 1420 H coinciding with 21/ 05 /
1999 some members of al-Mabahith al-`Amma (General Investigations) in al-Kharas
District of al-Mubrraz city arrested Sayyid Hassan Mohammad al-Yousif , aged
30, near his house when he returned from performing prayer. The action was
carried out arbitrarily without informing him with the legal reasons and
justifications of that measure.
Also, in Muneizela village of Ihsaa another
group of al-Mabahith al-`Amma have arrested arbitrarily Sheikh Habib al-Ahmad
and deported him to its prison.
It is worth mentioning that the arrests of
al-Mbahith al-`Amma are carried out unexpectedly without judicial warrant or
legal justifications. The detainee is held in custody for months or years and
is not informed or his family the reasons of the arrest or the period of the
detention. He is also denied the opportunity to defend himself as well he is
not subjected to a fair trial.
It is note worth that Sayyid Hassan al-Yousif and
Sheikh Habib al-Ahmad have been called by al-Mabahith al-`Amma before several
months and have been interrogated and warned that they should stop their
religious and social activities within the framework of Regime's policy to
restrain the religious activities that are not in conformity with the aims of
the Regime's Religious Establishment which was established in the service of
the Regime and to subject the religion in the service of the Regime's aims.
As we describe the tragic situation of the religious
scholars in a country whose rulers claim that they are applying the Islamic
Shari'a and keeping the interests of Muslims, we call on the Muslim jurists ,
scholars, intellectuals , the Islamic centers and personalities and the human
rights organizations to unite with scholars and Shi'a adherents who are still
held in Saudi prisons and jails .