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Saudis on Hunger Strike to Protest Opinion Detention
Dozens of Saudis have signed up to join a two-day hunger strike this week to protest against the detention of a prominent rights activist, a rights group said.
Mohamad al-Bajadi was detained in March 2011, activists said, for supporting families demonstrating outside to demand the release of detained relatives. His trial, on charges including tarnishing the reputation of the state, has been suspended as he refused to recognize the court.
The Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association (ACPRA), which is promoting the hunger strike on Thursday and Friday, said 38 activists had signed up on its website so far to participate in the action.
"This weekend we will meet in a public place and strike in public, in a farmhouse in Riyadh, the Qurtuba district," activist Mohammad al-Qahtani told Reuters on Monday.
"We hope to shed light on Mohamad al-Bajadi's case and others like him because unfortunately the state does not listen to the people, so we want to alert the international community to put pressure on it," he said.
An Interior Ministry spokesman said he was not aware of the case and declined to make any further comment.
The rights group called on all Saudis and specifically human rights activists, to "join a symbolic hunger strike next Thursday and Friday in solidarity with Bajadi and other political prisoners."
The statement said Bajadi was arrested after publicly revealing information about the alleged "death by torture of Yemeni citizen Sultan Abdo al-Duais, while in Saudi custody."
According to a fellow activist, who spoke to AFP on condition of anonymity, Bajadi has been charged with "inciting people to protest, possession of banned books, and damaging the reputation of the state."
Activists say there are more than 30,000 political prisoners held in jails across Saudi Arabia, who, the Saudi-based Human Rights First Society says, are being subjected to both physical and mental torture.
According to rights activists, most of the detainees are being held without trial or legitimate charges and have been arrested on grounds of mere suspicion.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by moqawama.org
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