Al-Sadhan enters his fourth year in prison

The Saudi activist Abdul Rahman Al-Sadhan enters his fourth year in a row inside the Al Saud family prisons.

Al-Sadhan did not speak with his family during the past years, except through two phone calls. The family couldn’t meet him in person.

Since the beginning of the new year, the Al Saud authorities allowed the Al-Sadhan detainee to make a second contact with his family, while his trial began last February.

On Thursday, the Al Saud authorities held a court session for Abdul Rahman Al-Sadhan, which was supposed to take place on March 14.

ALQST Human Rights expressed its concern about this trial and urged embassies and international human rights bodies to attend it.

Areej Al-Sadhan, Abd al-Rahman’s sister, had previously revealed the session’s details to try her brother and the nature of the charges against him.

“After three years of imprisonment and disappearance of my brother without charge or trial, the first (secret) session took place in the Specialized Criminal Court, and the case sheet was received,” said Areej.

Regarding the nature of the charges, Al-Sadhan’s sister explained that they are “loose charges related to his activity on Twitter.”

Areej indicated that her father was prevented from attending the session, but after the session, he saw Abd al-Rahman, for the first time in 3 years.

The Prisoners of Conscience account launched an online campaign to highlight Al-Sadhan’s suffering on his arrest’s third anniversary.

The Prisoners of Conscience talked about the most major human rights violations that took place in the trial of Abd al-Rahman al-Sadhan:

He was denied access to a lawyer of his choice.

The prosecution relied on confessions extracted from him under torture, and his family did not obtain a copy of them.

All visits will remain prohibited.

Abdul Rahman Al-Sadhan, an employee of the Saudi Red Crescent, was kidnapped by a Saudi security force from his workplace in 2018.

Bloomberg revealed some details of the lawsuit about spying on Twitter by the Al Saud authorities.

The agency said that the Saudi espionage on Twitter led to the arrest of the activist Abdul Rahman Al-Sadhan and others.

Al-Sadhan’s sister said, “My brother was active in human rights issues, and he ran an account on Twitter with an unknown identity, and Saudi security arrested him in March 2018.”

According to human rights organizations, the Al Saud authorities have arrested 6 Saudi citizens who were running Twitter accounts with hidden identities.