Yemane Gebre Loul

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Yemane Gebre Loul was an alderman of a Christian parish in Saudi-Arabia. One week after arresting 40 Pakistani Christians, Saudi Arabia's Muttawa (religious police) broke into a private worship service of expatriate Christians, arresting five elders from the congregation of 60 Ethiopian and Eritrean Christians who had gathered for prayer in Riyadh's central Al-Olaya district and declared that such gatherings were “forbidden” in Saudi Arabia. High-ranking Muslim sheiks reportedly took part in the April 29 raid . Yemane Gebre Loul, who was hosting the assembly in his rented house, was arrested with four other men. The only married man of the five, he became the Prisoner of the Month of the International Society for Human Rights in June 2005. An Eritrean employed as a private driver, he and his wife have eight children.

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• Compass Direct, “Saudi Police Raid Another House Church,” May 4, 2005.
• Government Denies Access To Jailed Christians (includes photo of Yemane Gebre Loul)