Today, the Saudi authorities began a session to try Jordanians and Palestinians who had detained them on the grounds of their sympathy for the resistance and the Palestinian cause.
The trial, according to activists and detainees, will last for four days, due to the large number of detainees who appear before the court, and they number more than thirty detainees.
The Saudi authorities have arrested university professors, academics, media professionals and engineers contracted by the Saudi government to work, and some of them have been arrested for two years, according to the Follow-up Committee for Jordanian Detainees in Saudi Arabia.
Earlier, the Arab Organization for Human Rights in Britain condemned the decision of the Saudi authorities to refer them to the appropriate criminal court.
The organization said in a statement that the detainees were subjected to enforced disappearance, and were not allowed to hire lawyers to defend them.
The statement also called on the Jordanian government to pressure its Saudi counterpart to release the detainees.
It is noteworthy that in September 2017, Saudi authorities arrested prominent activists and activists, most notably Salman al-Awda, Awad al-Qarni, and Ali al-Omari, amid demands from international and Islamic figures and organizations that they should be released. Recently, there were reports of the authorities ’intention to issue and implement death sentences for the three preachers.