Activists criticize the deplorable conditions of Palestinian and Jordanian prisoners in Saudi prisons.
Many human rights activists and defenders criticized the dire and inhumane conditions of Palestinian and Jordanian prisoners in Al-Saud prisons.
Human rights defenders, activists and families of detainees Freedom of expression discussed the human rights situation of dozens of Palestinian and Jordanian detainees in Saudi prisons and the dire conditions of detainees.
During a symposium organized by the Al-Jazeera Mirror, they stressed that the Saudi regime is violating the rights of prisoners in its prisons and courts, and called for their release.
“The postponement of the trials against the Palestinian detainees in the context of countering the Palestinian resistance and trying to link the case with the Israeli institution,” said Mohammed al-Omari, director of the Al-Jazeera Media Center. To put pressure on the resistance group.
“Saudi officials have been torturing people since their arrest, and this torture even affects the families of the detainees in various ways,” he said.
During the seminar, Al-Omari criticized the secret trials of detainees, saying there were cases in which lawyers, even representatives or relatives, were barred from entering the media for news coverage, and sometimes news coverage was limited to an e-newspaper affiliated with the Interior Ministry. It becomes.
Al-Omari also referred to the reality of detainees inside the prison, saying that guards interfere in all detainees’ affairs, including light, darkness, heat, cold, eating and drinking, which leads to severe psychological damage and, in most cases, severe torture. Placed.
Al-Qast spokesman Abdul Aziz al-Muayyid said in a statement that detainees in Saudi prisons were being treated inhumanely.
Al-Muayyad described the trial of the Palestinian detainees as politically and inhumane, stressing that the detention was contrary to all human rights decisions and that the ambiguous conditions in which the trial took place were far from international standards.