Khalil Janahi
| Khalil Janahi | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Bahrain |
| Known for | was held without charge or trial in Saudi Arabia for 19 months starting April 2007 and for 7 months in Dubai[1] |
Khalil Janahi is a citizen of Bahrain and Dubai who was arrested and held in Saudi Arabia in April 2007.[2][3][4][5] According to Abdullah Hashim lawyer for the Bahrain's National Justice Movement, speaking in July 2008, Janahi's extrajudicial detention, and that of fellow Bahraini Abdurahim Al Murbati, was of "urgent importance, given their length of time in custody without charge."
Although charges were never laid against Janahi he is reported to have been apprehended on suspicion of an association with al-Qaeda.[4] He spent his first four months under arbitrary detention at `Ulaysha Prison without access to his family.[1] In September he was moved from the al-Ha'ir prison to a more lenient facility.
On 27 November 2008 the Gulf Daily News reported that Janahi had been transferred to a prison in Dubai on 24 November 2008.[4] Janahi was freed on 11 June 2009, without having had access to lawyers, without any charges laid and without a trial, in either Saudi Arabia or Dubai.[1]
On August 2, 2010, Newsblaze reported on an incident where Bahraini police had been recorded beating a Saudi citizen.[6] Newsblaze speculated that Saudi officials had not complained about the incident because Saudi Arabia did not want to explain its detention of Janahi, Abdurrahim Al Murbati, and Abdullah Al Nuaimi.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Case study of Khalil al-Janahi" (pdf). July 2009. Archived from the original on 2011-06-09. Retrieved 2011-06-09.
- ↑ "Two Bahrainis in Saudi jails". Gulf Daily News. 2008-07-16. Retrieved 2008-07-16. mirror
- ↑ "Family in new bid to trace Qaeda suspect". Gulf Daily News. 2008-07-07. Retrieved 2008-07-16.
Some tell us he is still in Riyadh, others that he is in Assir, while others say he has been moved to Bahrain.
mirror - ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 mandeep singh (2008-09-22). "Appeal to free Saudi jail duo" 31 (186). Gulf Daily News. Retrieved 2008-09-25. mirror
- ↑ Rasha Al Qahtani (2008-11-27). "Bahraini may be freed soon" 31 (252). Gulf Daily News. Retrieved 2008-11-28. mirror
- ↑ Brij Sharma (2010-08-02). "TV Clip Creates No Clouds Over Bahrain-Saudi Ties". Newsblaze. Retrieved 2010-08-03.
FThe Saudi silence may also have been prompted by several other reasons. For one, the incident could be termed as minor even if ugly considering that Bahraini Abdurrahim Al Murbati, brother of former Guantanamo prisoner Issa Al Murbati, has been held in Saudi Arabia since 2003 and lately even his family has not been allowed to see him. And Bahrainis Khalil Janahi and Abdullah Al Nuaimi, a former Guantanamo inmate, are also in Saudi jails for a number of years. Since repeated attempts by human rights campaigners and the Bahrain government have failed to elicit a satisfactory response from the Saudi authorities, the clip of the drunken Saudi getting a rap on his knuckles looks more like a blip.
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