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Dr. Nasser Al-Omar

Thinker

detainee

Date of Birth
1952
City Of Birth
Buraidah – Al-Qaseem
Gender
Male
Nationality
Saudi
Education
PhD in Islamic Studies

About The Detainee

A thinker and researcher in Sharia Law; he has human rights activities and has dozens of books, research papers and articles on various legal and educational aspects; he supervises many websites. He is among the scholars who were imprisoned in 1990 for demanding some rights. Nasser al-Omar is considered one of the influential Al-Sahwa (Awakening) generation who have a broad following and have a significant impact on large segments of society. He is among those who handed a reform document to King Abdullah. Six years after the incident, al-Omar reported that one of the staff at the King’s Palace had said at the time that the King has not and will not look at the document.

Arrest And Human Rights Violations

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Date Of Arrest:
2018-08-08
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City Of Internment:
Makkah
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Reason
A tweet about social transformations in Saudi Arabia; he has 6 million followers on Twitter.
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Method
He was arrested from his house in Makkah
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Practices And Violations
- Arbitrary Detention Since August 2018 - Enforced disappearance - Solitary confinement - Deprivation of communication with his family - Psychological and physical torture - Deliberate medical neglect, despite his suffering from several chronic illnesses - Denial of the right to appoint legal representation - Continued detention despite his advanced age
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The Human Dimension In His Detention
He is advanced in age and suffers with chronic diseases and severe asthma
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Prison
Dhahban at the start, then transferred to Al-ha’ir
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Trial and legal proceedings
He was initially sentenced to 10 years in prison, with four years suspended. However, the Saudi judiciary later escalated his sentence to 30 years

Time Line For Arrest

2018-08-08

Arrested

2018-09-22

First secret trial hearing

2021-09-21

He was sentenced to 10 years in prison, with four years suspended

2022-09-09

His sentence was increased to 30 years

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