Project Description
Ali al-Saffar
Ali al-Saffar
Ali al-Saffar is one of several journalists detained by Saudi authorities in April 2019. He had previously written about regional politics and conflicts, including the Syria conflict, but like several of the others arrested, he had not been recently active in journalism. Al-Saffar was arrested April 9, 2019, according to the Saudi-focused human rights organization Al-Qst and the Gulf Center for Human Rights. In 2015, al-Saffar published an article on Israeli ties to militant groups in Syria on imprisoned Saudi blogger and columnist Thumar al-Marzouqi’s blog and also wrote op-eds on regional security issues for Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar in 2014, according to the newspaper’s author page. Al-Saffar, like several other of the journalists detained at the same time, also wrote for the website Arab Renewal, which has since been taken offline.
Personal information
Name: Ali al-Saffar
Name in Arabic: علي الصفار
Date of Birth: Unknown
Gender: Male
Marital status: --
Profession: Writer
Place of residence: Unknown
Arrest and jail information
Date of arrest:8 April 2019
Manner of arrest: Unknown
Where held: Al-Mabaheth (General Investigations Directorate), Dammam
Trial information
Alleged crimes: Unknown
Victim's charges: Unknown
Court: --
Verdict: Unknown
Date of verdict: Unknown
Updates on trial: Unknown
Previous arrests:
Human Rights Violations
Violations: Arbitrary arrest/ detention
Violation details: Unknown
References
Reference 1: None
Reference 2: https://cpj.org/data/people/ali-al-saffar/
Reference 3: https://alqst.org/prisonersofconscience/ali-al-saffar
Reference 4: None
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