Secret trials: the Saudi authorities’ tool to annihilate prisoners of conscience
Human rights circles highlighted the Saudi authorities’ use of secret trials as a tool to annihilate prisoners of conscience inside prisons.
Sanad Organization for Human Rights said that the Saudi authorities are determined to eradicate and abuse prisoners of conscience by circumventing the law and manipulating judicial rulings to issue arbitrary rulings.
The organization stated that secret courts against prisoners of conscience, academics, writers and thinkers are a humanitarian crime that should not be tolerated. They are not allowed to hire lawyers or attend an international committee that monitors the trial or the detainees’ families. The court focuses on often fabricated charges extracted under torture.
Among those secretly convicted by the regime are Dr Salman Al-Awda, Amal Al-Harbi, Loujain Al-Hathloul, Awad Al-Qarni and many other preachers, activists and prisoners of conscience demanding their rights.
Thus, secret courts are among the Saudi authorities’ crimes against prisoners of conscience, which should not be tolerated. They are an injustice against the detainees, an infringement of human rights, and a violation of international and local law terms and agreements.
Many activists and detainees died in the Saudi authorities’ prisons due to the willful neglect of the state of health and the physical torture they underwent behind bars.
Among those who passed away in detention cells were Abdullah Al-Hamid, Musa Al-Qarni, Hamad Al-Salihi, and many activists and free voices.
The danger of death continues to haunt prisoners of conscience inside the prisons of the regime. Among those who are persecuted for death due to deliberate neglect and physical torture are Muhammad al-Khudari, Safar al-Hawali, Saud Mukhtar al-Hashemi, Aida al-Ghamdi and many others.
The human rights organizations are calling on the human rights authorities to consider the dangers of death that persecute prisoners of conscience and to rescue them from the jailers inside the prisons of the Saudi authorities.
Meanwhile, the Saudi authorities continue to enforce the enforced disappearance of Hajj “Khaled Muhammad Abdul Aziz” for more than four years inside their detention centres.
“Khaled Muhammad” was subjected to arbitrary arrest on his way with his mother from Medina to Makkah Al-Mukarramah, when he was performing Hajj with his mother in September 2017.
Within the prisons of the authority, Khaled Abdel Aziz faced health neglect, deprivation of communication with his family, ill-treatment and psychological torture by the jailers of the country’s authority.
