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October 25, 2008
Defense Team Of Jailed Saudi Activist Plans Hunger Strike
The wife of jailed Saudi Arabian activist Matrook Al-Faleh sent CNN producer Mohammed Jamjoom this note from her husband's defense team.

Jamila Al-Faleh says the lawyers for Al-Faleh, whom human rights organizations say was jailed for criticizing prison conditions in his country, will go on a hunger strike to protest their client's detention conditions.

The Saudi Interior Ministry has not yet responded to CNN's request for comment. Below is a note from Al-Faleh's defense team:

"The Saudi Justice system and legal procedures (e.g., Criminal Procedure and Arrest and Detention Laws) have failed to render just judgments to jailed Saudi human-right activists who have been arrested with no official indictments, and incarcerated indefinitely in solitary confinement with no right to an attorney or access to habeas corpus.

After exerting all means to get fair treatments to the constitutional movement’s detainees, the defense teams decided to observe a 48-hour hunger strike. The proposed strike will take place on Thursday and Friday, 6-7 November 2008, in protest against flagrant human rights violations for all detainees in Saudi prisons who have been deprived of their basic rights as guaranteed by [the Saudi] Criminal Procedure Law and Arrest and Detention Law."
In Saudia Arabia,like most Arabic countries,there is scarcely room,for activists,to leap or soar.Pride and dignity crumble in thin air.The roads wind in listlessness of ancient strifes.There is clamour of confused wrong,apt in silence.
The rulers in that country see the eyes but not the tears.This is their affliction.
The world is going forward and Saudi Arabian ruling system is still inflicting their citizens medieval ages laws.

Their soil is full of oil yet their culture is full of repression, oppression and islamic fanatism.
Defense Teams for jailed Saudi Activists Are observing and Calling for a Two-Day Hunger Strike
To Show Solidarity with Detainees and To Support Their Human Rights

http://www.humriht-civsocsa.org/news.php?action=show&id=24
Saudia Arabia running by the begist evils dictator and tyrant regime ever!,but no budy care as long as they get the oil easily from thise evil regime!.
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