According to information obtained by ANRHI, Saudi authorities detained Hamoud Bin Saleh on 13 January 2009 and blocked his blog, Masihi Saudi - http://christforsaudi.blogspot.com, due to his opinions and the announcement on his blog that he had converted from Islam to Christianity.
Based on information obtained by ANHRI, the Saudi authorities jailed the young blogger at the infamous Eleisha political prison in Riyadh, a prison which in 2004 witnessed the arrest of the reformists Matrouk el Falih, Ali el Domini and Eissa al Hamed.
The 28-year-old alumnus of the al Yarmouk University in Jordan has been arrested twice before, for nine months in 2004 and in November 2008. Hamoud Bin Saleh must be set free, especially given that Saudi Arabia sponsored an interfaith dialog conference in New York in November and because the blogger's arrest may tarnish the country's image and expose the Saudi government's false allegations. The interfaith conference was attended by representatives of 80 countries. Read more ...
Based on information obtained by ANHRI, the Saudi authorities jailed the young blogger at the infamous Eleisha political prison in Riyadh, a prison which in 2004 witnessed the arrest of the reformists Matrouk el Falih, Ali el Domini and Eissa al Hamed.
The 28-year-old alumnus of the al Yarmouk University in Jordan has been arrested twice before, for nine months in 2004 and in November 2008. Hamoud Bin Saleh must be set free, especially given that Saudi Arabia sponsored an interfaith dialog conference in New York in November and because the blogger's arrest may tarnish the country's image and expose the Saudi government's false allegations. The interfaith conference was attended by representatives of 80 countries. Read more ...
Source: ANHRI/IFEX
H/T: Weasel Zippers
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