The account of the "prisoners of conscience" concerned with following up the cases of detainees in Saudi Arabia revealed that the authorities in Riyadh had summoned the Yemeni Sheikh Abdul Majeed Al-Zindani to investigate him about some cases, and that they would reserve him after that.
And according to what the account posted on his official page on Twitter, Sheikh Al-Zindani is currently under house arrest in his home in Makkah Al-Mukarramah, and he is under surveillance after he was kept for a while in the place of the investigation.
On the other hand, Sheikh Al-Zindani's son, in a telephone conversation with Al-Jazeera Net, denied the authenticity of the news, and said that the situation is what it is, and that his father was not summoned for investigation nor was he placed under house arrest.
Sheikh Al-Zindani has been staying with some of his family members in Saudi Arabia since the beginning of the war in Yemen, which he left more than 5 years ago, along with a number of political leaders in the parties, as well as officials of the legitimate authorities.
The news of Sheikh Al-Zindani's detention has sparked wide reactions on the communication sites during the past hours, and the activists have expressed their solidarity with him, and some of the Sheikh's critics have turned to his defenders against any practices that Saudi Arabia may take against him.
Some expected that Saudi Arabia had pressured the children of Sheikh Al-Zindani (some of whom reside in Turkey), in order to avoid talking about the investigations conducted with their father.
Wanted for Washington
Sheikh Abdul Majeed Al-Zindani is considered one of the most prominent religious figures in Yemen, and he is one of the leaders affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood. He founded the University of Faith in Sana'a and the International Commission for Scientific Miracles in the Qur’an and Sunnah, and was busy with establishing the scientific miracle in the legal texts and the interpretation of many global phenomena through it.
The United States previously classified him in the wanted list for its security services in 2004, accusing him of supporting what it calls "terrorism", and says he is the "spiritual father" of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
She also accused him of financing terrorism, and in 2011 she asked the Yemeni government to arrest him, while the Security Council decided to freeze his assets, but al-Zindani denied these charges and demanded that the US administration submit its evidence to the Yemeni judiciary.