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Jailed and on trial for reporting human rights violations in Saudi Arabia
Sources News Release
http://www.sources.com/Releases/NR2134.htm
Publisher: Reporters Without Borders
Date Written: 21/06/2014
Year Published: 2014
Resource Type: Article
Waleed Abu Al-Khair, a human rights lawyer who has been held since April, is being tried on a range of charges that include “preparing, storing and transmitting information that undermines public order” and violating Saudi Arabia’s cyber-crime
Abstract: Waleed Abu Al-Khair, a human rights lawyer who has been held since April, is being tried on a range of charges that include “preparing, storing and transmitting information that undermines public order” and violating Saudi Arabia’s cyber-crime law
The Saudi authorities are persecuting Waleed Abu Al-Khair for running the Monitor of Human Rights in Saudi Arabia (MHRSA), an organization he founded in 2008.
The current proceedings against him were started in 2012, when he was charged wit...
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