102 Women Detainees … Saudi Arabia Violates Human Rights in Detention
Saudi activists revealed that the Saudi regime continued violations, during January 2021, against prisoners of conscience, whom the Kingdom refused to release despite international and local demands.
Saudi activists stated that a number of prisoners of conscience in Saudi Arabia carried out a hunger strike to protest the ill-treatment inside the notorious Saudi prisons.
The founder of the Human Rights Union Society, Mohammad Al-Otaibi, who is detained by the Saudi regime, continues his strike for the fifteenth day in a row to protest the ill-treatment and the deteriorating conditions in his detention.
The Saudi judiciary had issued Al-Otaibi a 14-year prison sentence, after the Qatari authorities arrested him and handed him over to Saudi Arabia in 2017, while he was about to go to Norway to seek political asylum.
Human rights reports issued by organizations and activists from various countries of the world continue to condemn violations committed by the Saudi regime against detainees.
The Gulf Institute for Democracy and Human Rights announced its solidarity with the hunger striking detainees. It demanded the Saudi authorities again to release political prisoners and prisoners of conscience immediately and unconditionally and to ensure that they obtain all their rights.
In the latest reports of the Saudi European Organization specialized in human rights in Saudi Arabia, the organization showed 102 Saudi women who were arrested by the Saudi regime over the past years, among them a young girl and two pregnant women who gave birth inside the prison.
The 29-year-old woman, Israa Al-Ghamgham, is the first Saudi activist to face the execution by the Saudi Terrorism Court, after the Saudi Public Prosecution demanded that the maximum penalty be inflicted on her and four activists from the Eastern Province, which is predominantly Shiite in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Human Rights Watch said that the accusation against the activist Israa is related to documenting and participating in the popular protests that took place in Qatif in 2011 to demand an end to injustice and discrimination in the eastern region. This is a demand that the authorities consider “treason,” as Human Rights Watch put it.
Stuck in Boycott and Reconciliation
After Saudi Arabia signed a reconciliation agreement with Qatar, Abdullah al-Awda, the son of the Saudi scholar Salman al-Awda, demanded the release of his father, who was detained because of a tweet calling for reconciliation.
Human Rights Watch says that women in general in Saudi Arabia have been subjected to a widespread campaign of arrests in recent years. It noted that “many women activists are imprisoned without trial.