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Authorities of the Bani Saud regime launched a new campaign of arrests

11/25/2019, 5:17:16 PM


RIYADH - The authorities of the Bani Saud regime have launched a new campaign of arrests against nine people, including academics and writers in Ita

Riyadh-Sana

The authorities of the Bani Saud regime launched a new campaign of arrests against nine people, including academics and writers, as part of their continuing human rights violations.

"The campaign started on the 16th of this month," Al-Gust said in an account on Twitter, adding that a group of activists, bloggers and journalists were among those arrested.

The organization added that the Saudi authorities have launched a new campaign of arrests in the past few days against a number of journalists and activists, both male and female, in continuation of their previous campaigns. Following and stopped others.

For its part, confirmed the organization "prisoners of conscience" the arrest of nine people, including writer Suleiman Nasser and blogger Fouad Farhan.

In April, nine Saudis were arrested as part of a campaign to arrest the Saudi regime, which is under fire for its human rights record, the first such arrest since the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi at his country's consulate in Istanbul in October 2018.

According to several human rights organizations, the Saudi regime has a black record of human rights, continuing arbitrary arrests, trials and convictions of dissidents, and dozens of human rights defenders and activists for long criticizing these authorities and demanding reforms.

The Saudi regime, based on an obscurantist Wahhabi ideology, severely restricts freedom of opinion and expression, punishes its critics under medieval tyrannical laws including flogging, beheading, and limbs with a sword and violates human rights on a large scale, especially women.