Opponents of normalizing relations with the Zionist regime are arrested in Saudi Arabia.
A human rights organization has reported that the Saudi government is detaining opponents of normalizing relations with the Zionist regime.
The Saudi-based human rights organization Qast, which is made up of Saudi activists, said the Saudi government was detaining opponents of any normalization of relations with the Zionist regime.
The Saudi-European organization wrote on its Twitter page that Dr. Abdullah Al-Yahi had been detained since December 24, 2021, for criticizing the normalization of relations with Israel on his Twitter page.
Abdullah al-Yahya is not the first person to be arrested for supporting Palestine and opposing the compromise, and Saudi security forces have previously arrested dozens of clerics, academics and Twitter activists for opposing the compromise.
In April last year, a Riyadh criminal court sentenced prominent Saudi Twitter activist Abdul Aziz al-Awda to five years in prison for defending the Palestinian cause and opposing the normalization of relations with the Zionist regime. He, along with many other Saudi activists and figures, has been banned from leaving the country for opposing the compromise.
In September 2019, when the Saudi national team played against the Palestinian national team on a trip to the occupied territories, the Saudi government arrested many Twitter activists and promised them in writing that they would not write anything about the Palestinian issue.
In addition, the Riyadh government has made extensive arrests of Hamas members and Palestinians living in Saudi Arabia in recent years. Last August, Hamas’s representative in Saudi Arabia, Mohammad al-Khadiri, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for supporting the Palestinian resistance. The Saudi criminal court also sentenced 69 other Jordanians and other Palestinians who had long been detained for supporting the resistance in Saudi Arabia to between three and 22 years in prison.
The Washington think tank wrote in a December 28 poll of Saudi people that only 16 percent had a positive view of normalizing relations with the Zionist regime, such as the compromise agreements that the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan signed with Tel Aviv. . In the June 2021 poll, the figure was 36 percent.
