The organization’s website describes impressive projects to encourage young people to study technology, culture, art and digital communication. Jabri’s lawsuit also includes the accusation that MISK, an organization established by Mohammed bin Salman in 2011 to empower young people in Saudi Arabia, is used to enlist Saudi citizens and foreigners around the world to surveil opponents of the Saudi regime. intelligence services, is under house arrest by order of Mohammed bin Salman, who fears Nayef’s intention to remove him as crown prince. Nayef, who spearheaded the Saudi anti-terror campaign during the time of King Abdullah, King Salman’s predecessor, and is very close to the U.S. Jabri was formerly an adviser and close associate of Mohammed bin Nayef, who was crown prince before he was deposed by King Salman in 2017 and replaced by Mohammed bin Salman. The suspected assassins were not given permission to enter Canada and the Canadian security forces began to closely monitor Jabri’s home. The affair was brought to light after a former senior Saudi intelligence official, Saad al-Jabri, who fled Saudi Arabia for Canada in 2017, sued Salman in August, claiming that the crown prince had sent a squad to assassinate him in Canada. It seems that Sadhan fell victim to the Saudi social media surveillance system, which has worked persistently to uncover critics of the regime this suspicion was confirmed by a relative who worked for Twitter and informed Sadhan that his Twitter account was being tracked.
His family was not informed of the charges against him and didn’t know where he was incarcerated until it emerged that he was in the notorious al-Ha’ir Prison. Congress, pressure on human rights groups and other actions on Sadhan’s behalf have all been in vain thus far. citizens, and when the conversation ended, communication was once again cut off.
Exactly one year ago he received permission for a one-minute phone call with his mother and sister, both of whom are U.S. Sadhan was arrested in March 2018 at the offices of the Red Crescent, where he worked, and his family was barred from visiting him or speaking with him on the phone for two years. One of those activists is Abdulrahman al-Sadhan, 36, a graduate of Notre Dame de Namur University in California, who decided to return to his homeland to work for the advancement of young Saudis. She may be the best-known female Saudi rights activist in the world, but there are many other activists with similar agendas who are still incarcerated, among them critics of Salman who have been arrested in recent years and whose circumstances are unknown. Nevertheless, Alhathloul – who spent 1,001 days in jail out of a six-year term – has been in and out of prison since 2018. Her real “ guilt” is connected to the public campaign she led to challenge the ban on Saudi women obtaining driver’s licenses, which was eventually overturned by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as part of his campaign to change the image of the kingdom. Alhathloul, a journalist, had been convicted of conspiring against public order via the internet, and of being involved in “enlisting foreign elements” and in various activities opposed to the values of the kingdom. Saudi Arabia won praise last Wednesday for a “humanitarian” gesture when it released human rights activist Loujain Alhathloul from jail.