The Saudi Regime Continues Repressing the Freedoms of Expression and Faith

THE  COMMITTEE   FOR  THE  DEFENSE  OF  HUMAN  RIGHTS  IN

THE  ARABIAN  PENINSULA

DATE  : 7 / 06/ 2002  

NO  : 117/ H / 2002 

The Saudi authorities has arrested before few days the citizen (Ali Bo Khamsin ) from Hufof in Ihsaa, under the pretext of holding Hussaini funeral celebration in his farm.

It is worth to mentioning that the Saudi regime have arrested this year and the last year tens of citizens from Ihsaa under the charge of holding Hussaini funeral celebrations and banned a lot of citizens from holding like these celebrations , and it also has closed many mosques and Hussainyats for Shi'a adherents within the framework of sectarian discrimination and religious persecution , among these mosques and Hussainyats which were closed down were:

1- Hussainyat of al – Sayyida al- Zahra in Gern village in Ihsaa.

2- Hussainyat of Abo Anwar al- Ghatm in Mureihel of Imran.

3- Hussainyat of al – Qureini in Hufouf , Ihsaa.

.4- Hussainyat of al – Hawaj in Hufouf , Ihsaa.

5- Hussainyat of Abo – Habeeb al – Omran in Hufouf , Ihsaa.

6- Hussainyat of al –Abdullah, in Dukhl al- Mahdood , Ihsaa.

7- Hussainyat of al – Haj Mohammad al – Mubarak in Iskan Battalyah village , Ihsaa.

8- The Mosque of Imam Hussain (P. B. O. H) in Iskan Battalyah village , Ihsaa.

9- Hussainyat of Imam al-Hassan al-Mujtaba (P. B. O. H) in Mudarraz

      town , al-Nazha district.

10- Hussainyat of al – Qaem  in Mudarraz

 Mashrafa.

11- Hussainyat of al – Rasoul al-A'dam in Iskan Battalyah village , Ihsaa.

12- Hussainyat of al- Murtaza (P. B. O. H) in Gern village in Ihsaa.

13- Hussainyat of Imam al- Askari in Andalus district in Hufouf , Ihsaa.

14- Salon of AL Qattan, Ihsaa.

15- Salon of Naser al- Mar'i, Ihsaa.

It is worth to mentioning that the regime has recently used the mosque of Imam Hussain (P. B. O. H) as a private house in Battaliyah village.

On other hand, the citizen Mohammad Bo Khodher, 26, from Hufouf in Ihsaa is still behind bars before three weeks under the charge of distributing leaflets call to boycott the American goods.  

The regime also arrested the Citizen Zaman al- Otayah from Ihsaa, for the same charge.