Disclosure of the arrest of an Iraqi student during the Umrah, Baghdad reacted.
A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry and the Iraqi Umrah Hajj High Council reacted to the Saudis’ arrest of an Iraqi student during the Umrah pilgrimage.
The Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs reacted to the arrest of one of its citizens named “Walid Al-Zaidi” during the Umrah rituals in Saudi Arabia.
“There are moves to follow up on the case of Sheikh Walid al-Zaidi and what he said about his arrest inside the country,” Ahmad al-Sahaf, a spokesman for the Iraqi Foreign Ministry, told Al-Ahd. “Saudi Arabia is reportedly doing it.” without further ado.
Local Iraqi media had previously reported that Saudi authorities had arrested Sheikh Walid al-Zaidi while performing the Umrah ritual with his wife and children. He was arrested along with a pilgrimage convoy to Saudi Arabia, and the detainee did not give any explanation to his entourage about the arrest, and the convoy with which he traveled to Umrah is scheduled to return to Iraq today.
The Iraqi High Council for Hajj and Umrah sent a message to Saudi officials on Wednesday (yesterday) calling for the release of the detained Iraqis, and in a statement published on Shafaq News, announced that it had asked the Saudi authorities to release the detainees as soon as possible. Release the Iraqis who were arrested during the rituals of Umrah.
An Iraqi Foreign Ministry spokesman also said that Saudi officials had promised to release al-Zaidi.
