Saudi frees rights activist: monitor
New York-based Human Rights Watch on Monday pronounced a cases of Koshak and Mshikhs are among a “stepped adult arrests, prosecutions, and philosophy of pacific anarchist writers and tellurian rights advocates in 2017.” PHOTO: AFP
DUBAI: A Saudi rights romantic who tweeted a depiction of Christ’s birth on Christmas Day has been liberated on bail after one month in prison, a watchdog pronounced on Thursday.
A second romantic incarcerated around a same time is still in custody, a Gulf Center for Human Rights said. Their cases are partial of what monitors report as strong hang-up in a kingdom.
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Ahmed al-Mshikhs was expelled on Feb 1 from a military jail in Qatif district, that is dominated by Saudi Arabia’s Shia minority, pronounced a centre. No charges were laid opposite Mshikhs but, formed on what has happened to other activists, “he could face hearing any time in a future”, a rights organisation said. Mshikhs is co-founder of a Al-Adalah Centre for Human Rights in Saudi Arabia. He had been incarcerated given Jan 5.
The activist, whose Twitter comment shows him opposite a backdrop of Nelson Mandela, Ernesto “Che” Guevara and Mahatma Gandhi, tweeted on Dec 25 a Nativity stage display a birth of Christ.
The Gulf Center welcomed a recover of Mshikhs though pronounced another activist, Essam Koshak, should also be freed. Koshak was arrested on Jan 8 in Mecca, where he has been interrogated about “what he has published on Twitter,” it said.
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Koshak had tweeted Western media reports about Saudi Arabia, and retweeted comments from other activists, including a criminialized rights association.
Both Koshak and Mshikhs were targeted since of their tellurian rights work and their practice of a right to leisure of expression, a Gulf Center said.
New York-based Human Rights Watch on Monday pronounced a cases of Koshak and Mshikhs are among a “stepped adult arrests, prosecutions, and philosophy of pacific anarchist writers and tellurian rights advocates in 2017.”
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