The story of a young Saudi Shiite who has been in prison for 25 years for no reason.
Mustafa Moallem has been charged with a crime while in prison. He was sentenced to life in prison for a crime he did not commit and was subjected to the worst torture.
Mustafa Moallem, a young Saudi Shiite from the Qatif region, has been in prison since April 1996, and these days few people know him and know the reason for his arrest and the charges against him for more than 25 years. Who is in prison.
The Al-Jazeera website’s website writes that the important point is that at the time of his arrest, the officers did not show him or his family any evidence of the judge’s verdict. They violently entered the village of Al-Jaroudiyah in Qatif province in eastern Saudi Arabia and beat Mustafa al-Muallem, beating him up. His family says he was forced to confess under torture and beatings to being involved in the bombing of the Khobar tower in Saudi Arabia, which killed 19 American soldiers and wounded about 400, but strangely enough, the bombs exploded eighty days later. The arrest of this young man from Qatif took place and he was basically in prison at the time of the explosion!
The then US Secretary of Justice then claimed in 2001 that Mustafa al-Moallem was one of the perpetrators of the bombing. Saudi officials later insisted on their former claim in order to win the hearts of the Americans, and despite the fact that the young Shiite was in prison at the time of the explosion, a Saudi court sentenced him to life in prison. A court in which there was no news of a lawyer or an opportunity to defend the accused.
Mustafa al-Moallem and his comrades have joined the forgotten these days. From the moment they were detained, they and their families were not given any opportunity or permission to get a lawyer. Strangely enough, the investigating officer Mustafa al-Moallem appeared on the day of the trial as his lawyer. It was a court whose judges were a number of Wahhabi sheikhs who had a strong bias towards Shiites. The verdicts were issued not according to the law, but according to the personal opinion of the judge and what the situation was like in those circumstances.
