(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Amnesty International has called on Saudi regime to “immediately release” a detained human rights activist who has been on hunger strike for more than a month.
Mohammed bin Saleh al-Bajadi, the co-founder of the Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association (ACPRA), was detained in March 2011 for supporting families gathering outside the interior ministry in Riyadh to demand the release of detained relatives.
According to ACPRA, Bajadi has refused drinking water since Saturday and that “his life is in danger and his death inevitable.”
Bajadi is "a prisoner of conscience held solely for the peaceful exercise of his rights to freedom of expression, assembly and association," said Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, the deputy head of Amnesty's Middle East and North Africa program.
"All charges against him should be dropped and he should be released immediately," Sahraoui said.
"His hunger strike makes his release all the more urgent as his health must be deteriorating with each day he refuses food and water.”
Saudi Arabia has been witnessing anti-regime demonstrations since March 2011. Several people have since been killed and many others injured or detained by regime forces.
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14 April 2012 - 06:22
News ID: 308502
Amnesty International has called on Saudi regime to “immediately release” a detained human rights activist who has been on hunger strike for more than a month.
