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Marwan Ali Naji Al-Muraisi
Journalist
Released
Date of Birth
1980
City Of Birth
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Gender
Male
Nationality
Yemeni
Education
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About The Detainee
Presenter and Journalist, who has worked on a number of channels, such as; Almajd TV Network, and Ar-Risalah TV and MBC, and is also a journalist for the newspaper Sabaq. The prisoner is known for his excellence in many media disciplines such as; digital media, creative content and electronic marketing. He is also well known in the field of human development in which he has many books that he has translated to Arabic. Media channels were keen to host the prisoner for discussions in his field of expertise, and many Saudi Arabian universities hosted him In order to provide training courses in the fields of Media and Human Development The prisoner immigrated from Yemen to work in Saudi Arabia in 2013
Arrest And Human Rights Violations

Date Of Arrest:
2018-12-01

City Of Internment:
Riyadh

Reason
It remains unknown until now, despite the prisoner not being known for any political or human rights activism in opposition to the state

Method
He was apprehended in one of Riyadh’s hospitals where he was accompanying his son who is suffering from atrophy of the brain

Practices And Violations
Forcibly concealed for a period of one year in solitary confinement and not allowed to correspond with family
Denied counsel
Unnecessary postponement of trial
No charges levelled against the accused
Strict secrecy over the prisoner’s state of health and conditions of incarceration

The Human Dimension In His Detention
Forcibly concealed for a period of one year in solitary confinement and not allowed to correspond with family
Denied counsel
Unnecessary postponement of trial
No charges levelled against the accused
Strict secrecy over the prisoner’s state of health and conditions of incarceration

Prison
Unknown – as a result of the extreme secrecy surrounding the prisoner and his incarceration

Trial and legal proceedings
No allowed to communicate with his family outside of phone calls that last no longer than five minutes
His apprehending [and subsequent removal] from the hospital where he had accompanied his son who had fallen ill with atrophy of the brain, who was then left alone at the age of five in the hospital until such time as his family was contacted
Not allowed to take part in the funeral of his son who died after two years of his [father’s] incarceration
He was arrested