The authorities prevent the families of prisoners of conscience from visiting their relatives in the kingdom’s prisons

The Twitter account of prisoners of conscience published a message received from the mother of one of the prisoners of conscience complaining about the authorities’ denial of her son’s visit, stressing that visits have been stopped for more than a year.

According to what was reported by the prisoners of conscience account, according to sources who confirmed that the authorities have stopped visits by the families of prisoners of conscience in both Al-Ha’ir and Dammam prisons.

The Saudi authorities had carried out an arrest campaign targeting dozens of intellectuals, preachers and opinion-makers in September 2017 as part of a fierce campaign launched by the security services.