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09-08-2021
By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report
RIYADH/ KARACHI/ ISLAMABAD: The so-called present and former “Muslims rulers” of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) while those were / are really not only non-Muslims but also anti-Shia and pro-Jewish ( Takfiris, Yazidis and Wahabis) have not only been murdering, slaughtering, beheading, killing, abducting, missing and sentencing Shia Muslims (Shias) in KSA as well as across the world directly and indirectly like killing of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr in KSA, journalist Jamal Khashoogi in Turkey and Osama bin Laden (OBL) in Pakistan respectively but also awarding minor, capital and life-time sentences to Shias without judicial trial and exactly the same the present regime of KSA have been following their former so-called Muslim rulers, sources claimed, informed, revealed, asserted and confirmed as Press Media of India (PMI) and an extraordinary, well reputed, quite impartial and largely circulated (which has banned) Karachi-based English Daily known as Messenger.
Sources close to KSA’s regime informed PMI that dozens of more Shia Muslims have been sentenced in Saudi Arabia during last twenty-four (24) hours without any offence (they all sentenced just because they were Shias) and 22 pro-Shia Muslims have also sentenced without 
any trial while a court in Saudi Arabia has delivered verdicts against 69 Shia Palestinians and Jordanians, handing jail terms of up to 22 years to some while also acquitting an unspecified number on Sunday.
The group was detained in March 2018 during a wave of arrests by Saudi authorities on a group of long-term Palestinian and Jordanian residents in the kingdom on alleged links with an unnamed “terrorist” group, according to a 2020 report by Human Rights Watch (HRW).
Saudi authorities have yet to comment on Sunday’s verdicts.
“Saudi Arabia’s long record of unfair trails [sic] raises the specter that Jordanians and Palestinians will be railroaded on serious charges and face severe penalties even though some have alleged serious abuses,” Michael Page, HRW’s deputy Middle East director, said in a statement last year.
Detainees can appeal against the sentences after 40 days.
Several Palestinians have been detained since February 2019 and are facing trial before a Saudi terrorism court.
Hamas representatives
The Saudi court sentenced Hamas representative in Saudi Arabia Mohammed al-Khudairi to 15 years in prison. His son, Hani, was sentenced to three years, Anadolu Agency reported.
Al-Khudairi’s brother, Abd al-Majeed, told Anadolu Agency that the sentence includes “clemency for half the term”.
Al-Khudairi, 82, was a veteran Hamas leader responsible for managing the relationship with Saudi Arabia for two decades.
In February, Amnesty International said al-Khudairi had undergone surgery and was being treated for prostate cancer when the Saudi authorities arrested him and his son in April 2019.
Amnesty called on the Saudi king to ensure that “unfounded charges” against al-Khudairi and his son are dropped and that they are released.
Hamas, meanwhile, condemned the sentences handed out on Sunday, calling them “unjust” and saying those sentenced had done nothing to harm Saudi Arabia.
“We were shocked … by the rulings issued by the Saudi judiciary against a large number of Palestinians and Jordanians residing in the kingdom,” said Hamas in a statement.
“We deplore the harsh and undeserved sentences against most of them. All they did was support their cause and their people, to which they belong, without any offence to the kingdom and its people,” it added.
In its statement, Hamas also welcomed the acquittal of some of the detainees, and called on the Saudi authorities to “quickly release them and end their suffering and the suffering of their families”.
The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine also condemned rulings.
