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After the arrests of three important princes of the Saudi royal family, including a brother of King Salman, he was informed in early March, allegedly for opposing, as early as 2017, the election of Mohammed bin Salman, also known as MBS, for As crown prince, the Human Rights Watch organization again accuses the Saudi Arabian authorities (and that country’s deputy prime minister) of illegally detaining another prominent member of royalty.
Prince Faisal bin Abdullah, son of the late King Abdullah, has been missing since March 27, the organization said in a statement released by Reuters on Saturday. According to Human Rights Watch, citing sources linked to the royal family, authorities took the prince away when he was in prophylactic isolation due to the new coronavirus, in a family compound northeast of Riyadh. Since then, his whereabouts are unknown.
“Despite waves of criticism, the illegal behavior of the Saudi authorities during the de facto rule of Mohammed bin Salman remains unwavering,” said Michael Page, deputy director for the Middle East at Humans Right Watch. “Now we have to add Prince Faisal to the hundreds of detainees in Saudi Arabia without a clear legal basis.”
Faisal bin Abdullah, who became president of the Saudi Arabian Red Crescent, had already been arrested in 2017, in an operation that was supposedly aimed at fighting corruption at the highest level in the country, but at the time was not He was incommunicado, in fact, his whereabouts were known to him: he was in a room at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in the Saudi capital.
Contacted by Reuters, Saudi officials did not comment on the accusation.
