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SAUDI ARABIA:Demand the release of reformist Dr. Al-Hashimi

8 February, 2012 - 06:31

February8, 2012

Mr. Malick El Hadji Sow

Chairperson

Working Group on Arbitrary Detention

C/o OHCHR-UNOG

1211 Geneva 10

SWITZERLAND

Fax: +41 22 917 9006

Email: mdelalama@ohchr.org

 

Re: The ongoing detention of human rights activist Dr. Al-Hashimi

Dear Mr. Malick El Hadji Sow,

I am deeply concerned over the imprisonment of a Saudi human rights activist and faculty member at King Abdulaziz University, Dr. Sa’ud al-Hashimi by Saudi officials in February 2007. His detention was quite evidently due to his work on promoting civil liberties, democracy and constitutional reform in Saudi Arabia. He has been denied all his fundamental rights guaranteed by international conventions and statutory Saudi laws. As you are likely aware, this case transpires[...]

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