Saudi arrests about 500 Sudanese arbitrarily
A Sudanese government committee has announced that the Saudi regime authorities have arbitrarily arrested 500 Sudanese for various reasons.
In a report submitted to Justice Minister Nasr El-Din Abdel-Bari, the Committee for the Protection and Legal Support of Sudanese Abroad said that 499 Sudanese are detained in Saudi prisons.
The committee pledged to conduct field visits to countries where there are detainees facing criminal charges, in order to determine their conditions in coordination with the judicial agencies in those countries. It also promised to provide legal support and the necessary protection for them.
Human rights and other governmental institutions monitor the detention of the Saudi regime by hundreds of citizens of different Arab nationalities arbitrarily and without legal basis.
Last September, the Palestinian Human Rights Foundation (Shahid) published a list of 48 names of Palestinians and Jordanians being arrested in Saudi prisons.
These detainees are only those whose detention has been verified, and new names may appear at any time for people whose families feared their names for fear of repression.
The Foundation called on the Saudi authorities to immediately release all detainees who were arrested without clear charges and compensate them, and called on international organizations to take urgent action to put pressure on the authorities that practice the worst forms of psychological and physical torture on the detainees.
For its part, the Arab Organization for Human Rights in Britain called for the release of about 60 Palestinian and Jordanian detainees who have been in detention since April 2019 without any reason.
Among the most prominent Palestinian detainees is Muhammad al-Khudari, 81, who is a representative of Hamas in Saudi Arabia for two decades, in addition to academics, doctors, engineers, and others who came to the Kingdom years ago.
While the Saudi authorities did not charge any formal charges against them, sources indicated that the arrest of the Jordanians and the Palestinians came against the background of supporting the Palestinian cause.
On September 17th, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor and the human rights organization IRDG expressed their deep concern over the detention of dozens of Palestinians by the Saudi authorities and their enforced disappearance without legal basis.
At the time, the two organizations stressed, in a joint statement, that there is no legal basis for the detention of these people without informing their families of their whereabouts by the Saudi authorities, and called on the UN Human Rights Council to condemn in the strongest terms the kidnapping and forcible disappearance of innocent civilians, and to contribute to efforts to ensure their release.
