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Saudi rights activist seized by secret police, says wife
Outspoken rights activist and Saudi professor Matrook Al Faleh has been taken into police custody, his wife said on Friday.
- Agencies
- Published: 10:14 May 24, 2008
Riyadh: Outspoken rights activist and Saudi professor Matrook Al Faleh has been taken into police custody, his wife said on Friday.
Saudi Arabian secret police arrested Al Faleh on Monday at King Saud University in Riyadh, days after he publicly criticised treatment of two activists at a Saudi prison.
Al Faleh's wife, Jamila Al Uqla, said police informed her that he was in custody on Monday, but that police now denied this.
"I keep calling the secret police, but they keep denying they're holding him at their facility," she told CNN.
Human Rights Watch said Al Faleh was targeted for his comments on prison conditions.
On Saturday, the group said that Al Faleh sent an email about detention conditions at the Buraida General Prison where fellow activists are being held.
Al Faleh reportedly called the visiting procedures laborious and compared the visiting area to a "chicken coop."
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