“Saudi Arabia's domestic intelligence service should immediately release Munir Jassas, an advocate for Shia rights, who has been detained without charge for over five months, Human Rights Watch said today. "Silencing Shia advocates will do nothing to hide the Saudi government's record of harassment and discrimination against the group," said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. "But jailing a peaceful critic for months on end shows just how far Saudi officials will go to avoid criticism." Saudi intelligence officers arrested Jassas on November 7, 2009, and held him in solitary confinement for four months. The arrest came two months after the intelligence service summoned him and ordered him to write a pledge to stop his internet writings criticizing the government's treatment of Shias………”
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