Khaled al-Jabri, the son of the former Saudi intelligence officer, Saad al-Jabri, demanded the Saudi ambassador in Washington to disclose whether his two brothers, Omar and Sara, are still alive, while Canada contacted the reactions of the lawsuit filed by Saad al-Jabri against Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Khaled al-Jabri said that his two brothers, Omar and Sara, had committed no crime, and that if they were alive, they were being held illegally and unethically.
He added that the detention of his two brothers comes as part of the Saudi government's efforts to force his father to return to Saudi Arabia.
Al-Jabri's son said that a Western journalist quoted a Saudi official as saying that Sara and Omar are being held in al-Ha'ir prison, which is maximum security.
The lawsuit filed by Saad al-Jabri, an advisor to the former Saudi crown prince, Muhammad bin Nayef, against the current crown prince and a number of his aides in Washington are still reverberating in Canada on the media, political and security levels.
The Canadian authorities intensified their measures to protect Al-Jabri, after their success in thwarting two assassination attempts. The first was in October 2018, according to the lawsuit, and the other was in the past weeks, according to local media.
This incident comes at a time when Canadian-Saudi relations are witnessing a cooling off two years ago due to Canadian tweets criticizing the human rights situation in Riyadh, but Al-Jabri's crisis - according to observers - may further deepen the dispute between the two countries.
It is also considered Saad al-Jabri's resort to the US judiciary, filing a lawsuit against Mohammed bin Salman and a number of his senior aides accusing them of trying to assassinate him. As a new episode in the years-long conflict between Mohammed bin Nayef and Mohammed bin Salman in Washington.