In 2019, Saudi authorities began mass arrests of Palestinians in the kingdom, eventually detaining 68 people, including students, academics, and businesspeople, over alleged ties to Hamas.
On March 8, 2020, they were brought before the Specialized Criminal Court, Saudi Arabia’s terrorism court, charged with “joining a terrorist entity” and “financing terrorism,” in a mass trial with no access to lawyers.
On August 8, 2021, sentences were handed down, with terms ranging from 6 months to 22 years.
The most prominent detainee, Mohammed al-Khudari, Hamas’s former official representative in Saudi Arabia, was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Al-Khudari and his son Hani were both held past the end of their sentences. According to Amnesty International, both should have been released on February 28, 2022. Mohammed was finally released in October 2022, seven months after his sentence had expired, and deported to Jordan.
Amnesty International documented that Mohammed al-Khudari and his son Hani were subjected to serious human rights violations, including enforced disappearance, arbitrary detention, incommunicado detention, solitary confinement, interrogation without their lawyers present, and denial of adequate medical care.
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