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In a statement, HRW said Saudi authorities detained the prince at his home in a “forced disappearance” case and took him away without providing information on his whereabouts.
Faisal bin Abdalá was president of the Saudi Red Crescent, the Saudi Arabian department of the international Red Cross movement.
HRW recalls that an “enforced disappearance” is one in which the state or its agents refuse to provide information on the whereabouts and situation of the detainee.
“Despite the wave of criticism, the illegal behavior of the Saudi authorities during Mohamed bin Salman’s tenure does not diminish,” said HRW deputy director for the Middle East Michael Page.
The arrest of King Salman’s nephew is the latest in a long series of arrests of members of the Saudi royal family, for which Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman is responsible and which started with an operation in which 300 people were arrested in November from 2017..
At the time, Prince Faisal bin Abdullah was also arrested, released a month later, despite being prohibited from leaving the country.
Last March, two important members of the Saudi royal family, Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz, King Salman’s younger brother, and Mohammed bin Nayef, the king’s nephew and former crown prince, were arrested according to the northern media. -American people.
The arrests sparked rumors of an alleged deterioration in King Salman’s health, but the Saudi government did not comment.
Three weeks ago, in messages on the Twitter social network, which were later excluded, Princess Basma bin Saud, niece of King Salman, requested her release, alleging her innocence and the deterioration of her health.
The figure of Mohamed bin Salman, initially associated with a reform process to modernize the ultra-conservative Saudi kingdom, was marked by the death of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2, 2018, an event that generated widespread international condemnation. .
