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Hamas condemns continued detention of Palestinian officials in #SaudiArabia
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A Saudi court on Sunday held the first hearing in the case of 68 Palestinian and Jordanian detainees. According to al-Mayadeen, the detainees are charged with “supporting terrorism and financing it” and belonging to “a criminal terrorist entity”. Senior Hamas official Muhammad al-Khudari and his son Hani, who were arrested last April, were among those who stood trial on Sunday. Al-Khudari represented Hamas in Saudi Arabia between the mid-1990s and 2003. He has held other important positions in the Palestinian resistance movement as well. Last month, Saudi authorities launched a new campaign of "arbitrary" arrests against Palestinian expatriates on charges of supporting Hamas. The Prisoners of Conscience, a non-governmental organization advocating human rights in Saudi Arabia, announced on February 12 that the kingdom had detained a number of Palestinians, including the relatives or children of those imprisoned last April for the same reason. Over the past two years, Saudi authorities have deported more than 100 Palestinians from the kingdom, mostly on charges of supporting Hamas financially, politically, or through social networking sites. Posted by: Fred 2020-03-10 |
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