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APAIMages - APAIMages CLIENTS ONLY, Gaza- 09 August 2021. Senior Hamas leader Mahmoud Al-Zahar speaks during an interview with APA agency.
RESTRICTION SUMMARY: APAIMages CLIENTS ONLY SHOTLIST: APAIMages - APAIMages CLIENTS ONLY, Gaza- 09 August 2021. Senior Hamas leader Mahmoud Al-Zahar speaks during an interview with APA agency. STORYLINE: The Saudi court issued verdicts against 69 Palestinians with sentences ranging from 3-22 years without allowing relatives of detainees to attend the trial. Dozens of Palestinians have been detained and facing trial before a court since February 2019, including businesspeople, academics and students. In March last year, Ismail Haniyeh, head of the Hamas political bureau, in a letter addressed to the Saudi monarch pleaded with him to make a quick decision and order the freedom of dozens of Palestinian detainees who are languishing in Saudi prisons. Palestinian families and human rights groups also called on Saudi authorities to immediately release the Palestinians, citing the threat posed by the spread of COVID-19. Families of the detainees, some of whom are in their 80s, say the Palestinians have been denied access to lawyers and visitation rights, and authorities have recently begun reducing phone call access. In February 2020, the Prisoners of Conscience, a non-governmental organization advocating human rights in Saudi Arabia, announced in a post on its official Twitter page that the Saudi authorities had launched a new campaign of "arbitrary" arrests against Palestinian expatriates living in the kingdom on charges of supporting Hamas. Footage by Ashraf Amra / APAwire
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