A month ago, the Moroccan government arrested a Saudi dissident named Osama al-Hassani, who had come to Dar al-Bayda airport from Britain. Last week, Morocco extradited the 42-year-old professor to Saudi Arabia on charges of car theft!
Osama al-Hassani, a former professor at King Abdulaziz University with an Australian passport, came to Morocco to see his child from his Moroccan wife.
His wife had said that two days after Osama’s arrest, she was able to see him only for 5 minutes.
She added that Osama had said he had been pressured to sign his handover process to Saudi officials without trial.
The Saudi website “Prisoners of Thought” reported that Osama is currently in the worst condition in a Saudi prison.
The Australian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has also expressed concern over the detention of Osama.
The demands of the Saudi-based human rights organization known as Al-Qast and the UN Committee against Torture from Morocco for not extraditing al-Hassani to the Saudi government do not seem to have been heard by Moroccan officials; despite knowing the fact that a vague fate awaits Al-Hassani, have handed him over to Riyadh.
Although Saudi Arabia has a long and bloody history of brutality and pursuing dissidents and physically torturing and murdering them, it has been brutally intensified since the coronation of Muhammad bin Salman, and the prince’s repressive policies have angered even the traditional Saudi allies in the West and the United States in particular. After the tragic murder of Jamal Khashoggi, a critical journalist has aroused in Istanbul.
But inside Saudi Arabia, Ben-Muslim is pursuing an iron fist policy against dissidents and critics and all neutral figures, including his uncles and cousins, prompting Joe Biden to threaten the Saudi Crown Prince during his election debates to pay a high price for Crimes against dissidents will pay off. It is clear that the case of Osama al-Hassani, an academic activist, has created a new challenge for the Saudis, who have not yet escaped the consequences of the assassination of Khashoggi, the arrest of Lajin al-Hazloul, Salman al-Awda, Muhammad bin Nayef and Ahmad bin Abdul Aziz, and thousands more in bin Salman detention centers. Ben-Muslim in power is unlikely to have an end to the Saudi challenge series.
