Detainees of Al-Ra'i Detainees 'Account on Detainees' Rights in Saudi Arabia revealed that the Saudi authorities arrested the former faculty member of Imam University, Sheikh Abdul Rahman Al-Mahmoud.
He said that Sheikh Mahmoud was arrested on the grounds that a number of his students had republished part of one of the episodes of a program he was presenting in May 2017.
He criticized Sheikh Abdul Rahman Al-Mahmoud in the current section of what he called fools, in reference to the entertainment authority. He warned of the danger of allowing them corruption in Saudi society, he said.
Yesterday, it was revealed that the Saudi authorities had arrested Sheikh Otaiba Faisal bin Sultan bin Jahjah bin Humaid.
According to the account of detainees of opinion - in a tweet on Twitter - that the arrest of Sheikh Faisal came on the back of tweets in which he criticized the entertainment authority through its president Turki Al-Sheikh, and called for entertainment to be in a logical and acceptable manner without prejudice to the essence of religion and constants.
Authorities also summoned popular poet Safar al-Dghailbi for questioning because of a poem that included indirect criticism of the sheikhs.
The authorities had arrested the days before the poet Hamoud bin Qasi al-Subaie and video designer consul bin Subaie, on the back of a video criticizing the practices of the head of entertainment as well.