The son of the Saudi intelligence officer, Saad Al-Jabri, called on his country's authorities to reveal the fate of his two detained brothers, and this comes after the lawsuit filed by the former security official against Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman and his close associates on charges of attempting to assassinate him on two occasions.
Khaled al-Jabri said in an interview with the American Fox News Channel broadcasted last night that the family wants the Saudi government to provide evidence that his two brothers Sara and Omar are alive, adding that he does not know if his two brothers are still alive.
He added that there is no justification for the detention of children in any way, stressing that Sara and Omar were taken hostage.
Khaled al-Jabri also said that it was not logical that the Saudi government did not show that his brothers Sarah and Omar were fine, describing what was happening to them as a nightmare.
The family of Saad al-Jabri, who was an advisor to the former Crown Prince Muhammad bin Nayef and left the kingdom years ago, accused the Saudi government of detaining Sarah and Omar to pressure their father to return.
A few days ago, after the disclosure of the lawsuit filed by the former Saudi officer in the Washington Federal Court against Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman and others for the attempted assassination of him, the US State Department demanded Riyadh to release the two sons of Al-Jabri.
Saudi activist Muhammad Al-Omari told Al-Jazeera that the Saudi government's acquiescence in litigation outside its territory is a victory for Al-Jabri as an individual, pointing out that it is the first time that the Saudi state stands against a person.
He added that Al-Jabri was an official employee, and that doubting his integrity is a questioning of the period of the late Saudi King Abdullah.
For his part, writer and political analyst Asaad Bishara said that Saad al-Jabri is seeking, from behind the lawsuit he filed before the US judiciary, to cover up financial corruption in which he is involved, and he said that Saudi Arabia will nevertheless present to the US court a legal response on the subject of the case.
Saudi response
The French Press Agency yesterday quoted a high-ranking official in the Saudi Royal Court as saying that Riyadh is preparing its response to the lawsuit filed by Al-Jabri in Washington.
The Saudi official accused Al-Jabri of corruption, and said that he was involved in corruption cases worth billions of dollars during his work in the Ministry of Interior.
He added that Al-Jabri would not be able to reveal many of the corruption files because he was involved in them, according to the Saudi official.
And he considered that the lawsuit that Al-Jabri filed against the Saudi crown prince is flimsy and not based on any evidence, except that it may poison relations between Riyadh and Washington, as he put it.
In the lawsuit that he filed before Washington Federal Court, Al-Jabri accused the Saudi crown prince of sending the "Tiger" squad to assassinate him in Canada in the same way that journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed on October 2, 2018, inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.
The lawsuit confirms that the Saudi crown prince also sought to assassinate Al-Jabri in the American city of Boston, where the former Saudi intelligence officer was staying, before he sought refuge in Canada.
Washington Federal Court issued subpoena orders against Mohammed bin Salman and 13 other people to respond to Saad Al-Jabri's accusations against them of trying to assassinate him, and in addition to the crown prince, the case targets close to him, including Saud Al-Qahtani, Ahmed Asiri and Badr Al-Asaker.