Saudi Arabia: Fear of Execution/Possible Prisoners of Conscience

Index Number: MDE 23/001/2002
Date Published: 17 January 2002
Categories: Middle East And North Africa, Saudi Arabia

Amnesty International is concerned at reports that at least 17 people from the Ismaili community in Saudi Arabia are at risk of execution possibly as early as tomorrow. The organization does not have all the names of the 17 detainees held in al-Hair prison in Riyadh, but they are said to include Duhayman Muhammad al-Hatila and Mish'il al-Hussain Barman bel-Harith.