Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association

[1] On 9 March 2013, the Saudi court sentenced two of its prominent leaders to at least 10 years in prison for "offences that included sedition and giving inaccurate information to foreign media", while dissolving the group.

[2] In January 2011, ACPRA and Human Rights First Society complained to King Abdullah about the torture of septuagenarian Judge Suliman al-Reshoudi, whose feet were chained to his bed each night and who was forced to sit up during the day.

[7] In late March 2011, ACPRA's leader, Mohammad Fahad Al-Qahtani, stated that he saw police detain about 50 out of 100 protestors at the Ministry of the Interior in Riyadh.

[2] ACPRA co-founder Mohammed Saleh al-Bejadi (also al-Bjady) was arrested on 21 March 2011, during the 2011 Saudi Arabian protests, in Buraidah by Mabahith, the internal security agency.

[4] Al-Bejadi appeared in the Specialized Criminal Court in August 2011 on charges of "insurrection against the ruler, instigating demonstrations, and speaking with foreign [media] channels.

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ACPRA members on trial in Riyadh in 2012