Human Rights Watch warned that the mass trial organized by the Saudi authorities against the dozens of Palestinian and Jordanian detainees residing on its soil raises serious concerns about violations of its legal procedures.
The organization said in a statement today, Friday, that after two years of the detention of these detainees without charge, secret trials began on the eighth of last March based on vague allegations related to their links with an "unidentified terrorist entity".
She added that Saudi Arabia's long record in the field of "unfair trials" raises suspicions that the detainees will face fabricated and dangerous charges and harsh penalties.
A statement from Human Rights Watch conveyed the testimonies of some of the detainees' families indicating that there were torture operations against them, and that one of the detainees recounted how Saudi investigators woke him at dawn, put his head in hot water, and sometimes suspended him upside down for two days.
The families of the detainees expressed serious concerns about the possibility of an outbreak of the Corona virus in Saudi prisons, calling for their release.
Earlier this month, the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) renewed its call to the Saudi authorities to release the Palestinian detainees, especially the detainee Mohammed Al-Khudari who is more than eighty years old and suffers from diseases, and who was managing the relationship between Hamas and Saudi Arabia and the rest of the Palestinians.
"We are betting on the voice of reason and wisdom among officials in the kingdom to end this file urgently and before the blessed month of Ramadan begins, for the sake of the Palestinian people and their just cause," Hamas said.
The Euro-Mediterranean Observatory for Human Rights, based in Geneva, said in a statement issued on September 6, 2019 that Saudi Arabia is forcibly hiding 60 Palestinians, including Al-Khudari and his son, but that Saudi Arabia has yet to issue any clarifications.