Ahmed Rawy - Al-Jazeera Net
Abdul Rahim Al-Huwaiti leaned on the wall of his house, and photographed his last word, before the Saudi security forces killed him, in the village of Khuraibah, in the northwestern region of Tabuk on April 13.
The news of Al-Howeiti’s death was reported by Saudi accounts on Twitter, some of which were active recently, to defend the right of the villagers to remain in their homes, to refuse government compensation in exchange for the evacuation of the village from its residents, and to build the facilities of the massive “NEOM” project launched on October 24, 2017 .
The "NEOM" project extends over an area of 26,500 km2 in the far northwest of Saudi Arabia, and Egyptian and Jordanian lands on the Red Sea coast also participate in it, and the Saudi Public Investment Fund allocated a budget of 500 billion dollars for it to put another project for its daughters within a maximum period of 50 years.
The official Saudi media reported - quoting the State Security Agency - the news of the death of Al-Hweiti two days after it occurred, and described the dead man as "required by the security services (...) who initiated the shooting towards the security men, and did not respond to all calls made to him to surrender." Himself".
A statement from the spokesperson for the State Security Presidency, regarding the death of one of the wanted persons in Tabuk Region while the competent authority was conducting his arrest duties. pic.twitter.com/j6lERuYDx6 - State Security Presidency (@pss_ar) April 15, 2020 |
The reason for the delay
attributed the Saudi human rights activist Fahd Al-Ghuwaidi in an interview with Al-Jazeera Net The official statement of Al-Howeiti’s death was delayed to “that the government did not initially want to publish any news about the killing, but was forced to issue its statement after it saw the rapid and influential spread of the event on social media, and anger Who accompanied the video prepared by Al-Hwaiti before his departure, "adding that the statement" was written with clear confusion and did not include convincing details. "
On the other hand, Saudi accounts on Twitter loyal to the government attributed the killing of Al-Hwaiti to his “terrorism, his outlaw, and his resistance to the security forces several times,” and saw in his face with a heavy beard an indication of the validity of the accusations against him of extremism and “removing loyalty and belonging,” and his adoption of “thought Prodigal. "
These loyal accounts also replied to the opposing labels of the novel "State Security" by launching the "# terrorist_Abd al-Rahim_ Al-Huwaiti" tag, in which some of the tweeters called for lack of sympathy for the dead.
Incendiary bottles ... firearms .. sand bars and |
One of the funny things about the aforementioned tag is what claims that Saudi opposition Alia Al-Huwaiti, who in previous years represented the Kingdom Holding Company owned by Prince Al-Walid bin Talal in the equestrian sport, is the daughter of the dead man, which is denied by the biography of Alia Al-Hwaity published on its official website.
The accounts of the bots,
and it is noticed on the "# terrorist_abd Rahim_ Al-Hwaiti " tag that a number of accounts that were active in it, Al-Jazeera Net had previously revealed in an investigation published in July 2019 that they are accounts feeding the internet robots (bots), whose main tasks are to manipulate public opinion and delusion The popularity of a topic.
On the other hand, the accounts of activists and followers of the Khriba village case, whose members describe the government's actions as forced displacement, did not wait for the release of the government statement, so they rushed from the first moments of the news on Twitter to share the video filmed by Al-Hwaiti before he was killed and commented on, reviewing what happened to the opponents of the policies of me Al-Ahed Muhammad bin Salman inside and outside the country, including what happened to the late Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi at his country's consulate in Istanbul on October 2, 2018.
This Abdel Rahim was calling for a peaceful and civil life with a state official with all politeness and respect and expressing his protest, why the killing! If he did not recognize the state institutions, why did he meet with their officials in Canada weeks ago, the residents closed the lines of transport of goods (striking the state's economy). Nobody was killed, why? # Shahid_Newm! https://t.co/UjZ2gKDmfv pic.twitter.com/EuqzPzh4gp Omar Abdulaziz (@ oamaz7) April 15, 2020 |
The video, published by Abd al-Rahim Al-Hwaiti, hours before the security forces arrived in the vicinity of his home, carried clear political messages, expressing opposition to the policies of the Crown Prince to the extent of describing the current Saudi approach to Al-Sabiani, who draws from his cartoons his experience, in addition to the language of the video clip went to some extent The desire to sue the government with international courts because it forced the villagers of Al-Khriba to leave their homes, despite their refusal to accept compensation for the expropriation of their property.
Al-Hwaity’s messages Al-Hwaity’s
messages saw in “Nayum” a project in which the government’s preference for foreign businessmen and their capital is evident at the expense of citizens. The government, according to the deceased, intends to build modern facilities for those who come to live in or invest, on the ruins of houses whose people are forced to leave, which was not reported Considering "state terrorism".
The video, which was published by Al-Hwaiti on his YouTube channel, and received more than 60 thousand views, predicting the scenario that Saudi Arabia will adopt in the event of using weapons with him, which is what Al-Ghuwaidi sees "definitely the way for the Saudi government, which has always used to use this preamble in the absence of transparency and real legal accountability." As if the condition of Hwaiti says: If this happens, know that they are lying.
Abdel-Rahim did not martyr only for the sake of his land, for example, men are the safety valve for the nation that preserves its religion and land from the betrayal of a colonial agent who plundered our land and defiled our sanctities and made it a den of prostitution and a hotbed for the Israelis! # Shahid_Earth_ Al-Huwaiti # Al-Huwaitat # martyrdom_Abdul-Rahim_ Al-Huwaiti # Al-Huwaitat _ against_transmission_newm pic.twitter.com/ylPY94VTFP - Alia Aboutayeh Al-Hwaiti (@Aliia_Alhwaiti) April 13, 2020 |
In addition, the Egyptian security forces ’method of dealing with opponents was evident in the incident of Al-Hwaiti's killing, when the accompanying images of the Saudi State Security apparatus showed weapons, ammunition, and Molotov cocktails that were said to have been seized in the victim’s house, while it is one of the approved methods by which governments justify killing outside Law framework.
And Saudi political activist Nasser Al-Qahtani, who is residing in Britain, draws attention to his dialogue with Al-Jazeera Net that "Al-Hwaiti's pictorial word that named his village a homeland provides a different picture of the traditional loyalty in Saudi Arabia to the ruler, who has always been sung by the official media and sought to cultivate it in the minds of the people." .
Al-Qahtani explains that Al-Hwaiti did not come up with anything new, but he showed a crackdown in the view that considered the Al Saud the only solution in order not to drag the country into civil conflicts, especially after the arrest of sheikhs and intellectuals, and the assassination of Khashoggi.
The activist believes that "the message of the Saudi regime to the opponents is clear after the death of Al-Hwaiti, (...) which is that everyone who believes that he can oppose the regime, even if it is in defense of his private property, is destined to kill and discredit."