No: 86/H/99
A detention of a Citizen
From the East of Arabian Island
On
4 – 11 – 1999, the General Investigations(al-Mabahith al-`Amma) in Riyadh
called the citizen Abdul Karim Hussain AL-Nemer a 45 – year- old –merchant of
gold in Dammam. Another group from
the same department accompanied him to his house and it was thoroughly
inspected, then he was transported to the prison of al-Mabahith. That measure
was carried out by the General Investigations but neither the detainee was told
of the charges, nor his family knew the reasons behind the detention. That
measure was contrary to all human and Islamic traditions and laws.
In this regard, it is worth to point that al-Nemer was
previously detained in 06/ 11 /1997 by al-Mabahith al-`Amma in spite of his
return to the country in 1993 according to what is called the (General Amnesty)
for the political opponents who were in exile. AL-Memer was among those who
have exposed to the detention as a result of the fierce campaign that was
engaged by the Saudi Regime against the energetic Muslims.
The citizen al-Nemer had been exposed to fierce
harassment as preventing him to travel abroad, moving inside the country or
making contact abroad. That happened since his release till the time of his
detention in the second one.
Specialist news from the country mentioned that the
Regime had imposed strict harassment against numerous number of former
detainees, who were released later, as preventing them of traveling abroad for
5 to lo years. Also it imposed strict censorship on religious scholars’
activities to hinder them from performing their duties and they should put an
end to their religious duties to educate people and offer them guidance, make
public religious lectures, and lead of group prayers.
At the level the case
of the citizen Hani al-Sayegh, who was delivered last month by the American
authorities to Saudi Arabia, the Regime, through its Defense Minister (Sultan
bin Abdul Aziz), declared that al-Sauegh’s family has visited him in the
prison. That visit was occurred through a permission from the Ministry of
Interior. The turn of that, the Regime permitted that visit after few days from
the arrival of al-Sayegh to his country and before the completed investigation
with him. This measure is considered as exceeding of the Regime law of
treatment with the detainees who were prevented to face their families till the
finish of investigation and the issue of the secret sentence. Particularly, the
sentence against the detainee is forced on the judge by the Ministy of
Interior.
May be the bad reputation and the black history of the
Saudi regime in the field of torture and coercive treatment with detainees and
the expectation from the others that the Regime would be treated al-Sayegh
badly at his arrival to the country, made the Regime to forget the wait in
permitting of that rare visit to al-Sayegh by his family. The Regime aimed from
that visit to prove to the world and the International organizations that it
follows the civil and human measures of treatment with detainees. The family of
al-Sayegh, as other families became unable to face their prisoners or know
their fate.
Will al-Sayegh be tried or have access to lawyers or
he will be similar to the other detainees in the prisons of (Silence kingdom)?
The detainees will be there without trial, defense or knowing the reasons of
their detention. They will be in the prisons for uncertain period which is
limited by the Ministry of Interior which is responsible of wasting the
security of citizens and blundering them from their normal freedom and the
rights of citizenship.