Al-Qustos Human Rights Organization revealed through its Twitter account that a new date has been set for the trial of Saudi activist Mohammed Al-Otaibi, who has been detained since mid-2017.
The organization stated - in a tweet via its account - that a new session was decided in the Specialized Criminal Court in Riyadh on Sunday 15 March 2020 to try Al-Otaibi.
A new session was set up in the Specialized Criminal Court in Riyadh on Sunday 15 March 2020 to try the human rights activist #Mohammed Al-Otaibi and asked him to provide a response to the lawsuit, and so far the authorities do not allow international observers to attend. # StandWithSaudiHeroes https://t.co/6tJvHjPt7Z - Al-Qastas for Human Rights (@ALQST_ORG) February 10, 2020 |
She added that he was asked to provide a response to the lawsuit, noting that the Saudi authorities do not yet allow international observers to attend the trials.
Dozens of human rights activists, sheikhs, and preachers remain in Saudi prisons, most of whom have been arrested since 2017, and according to human rights information, many of them have faced serious violations, including torture, to get them to confess to crimes they did not commit or to abandon their critical positions of the authorities.