British lawyer calls for the detention of the Saudi minister of the interior
Saudi Arabia-UK, Politics, 9/10/2004

A British lawyer asked the Attorney General in London to issue a warrant of arrest against the Saudi minister of the interior Prince Nayef Bin Abdul Aziz under the charge of torturing and illegal imprisonment of Sheikh Saad Bin Zear.

The British lawyer stressed that his client Bin Zear is innocent from accusations addressed against him, and called for stopping his torture and to bring him into an open trial and release him. He said that Prince Nayef is the first one to be responsible for what had happened to his client.

The British lawyer told al-Jazeera TV that the British government is obliged, according to the international law to follow up on all those who commit acts of torture and human rights violations.

The Saudi authorities had detained sheikh Saad Bin Zear on April 17 this year, over his participation in the coverage made by al-Jazeera TV to comment on a tape broadcast by al-Jazeera to the leader of al-Qaida organization Osama Bin Laden in which he called for a truce with the west- excluding the USA, under the conditions that the west not attack Muslims.

Worthy mentioning that Saad Bin Zear -- a media teacher at former al-Imam university and is considered the oldest prisoners of the opinion in the Kingdom -- was detained 8 and a half years ago over demanding reform. No accusations were addressed against him. He was released on March 2003.

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