Saudi authorities postpone verdict in Salman Al-Ouda’s case to 30 October

The competent criminal court postponed the verdict on Salman Al-Ouda until Wednesday 30 October, according to his son Abdullah Al-Ouda’s tweet.

Abdullah Al-Ouda said: “After the suspicious urgency to fix court sessions for my father Salman Al-Ouda, and after previously deciding to pronounce the verdict today, the court suddenly decided to postpone the judgment until Wednesday 30 October. I ask Allah to lift the burden off my father’s and the rest of the detainees’ shoulders.”

بعد الاستعجال المريب في جلسات الوالد #سلمان_العودة ، وبعدما تقرر سابقا النطق بالحكم اليوم.. قررت المحكمة فجأة اليوم تأجيل النطق بالحكم إلى يوم الأربعاء (تاريخ ٣٠ أكتوبر)!
أسأل الله أن يفرّج عن الوالد والبقية

The hearing for my father has been suddenly postponed for October 30

— د. عبدالله العودة (@aalodah) October 10, 2019

The Twitter account Prisoners of conscience, concerned with the human rights situation in the country, stated: “Continued and deliberate stalling in the trial’s hearings of Sheikh Salman Al-Ouda and his family is aimed to harm them. After fixing today for pronouncing the sentence, and after the unwarranted rush to complete the hearings, the authorities decided to postpone that date by 20 days. In fact, a series of overlapping human rights crimes have been committed against him.”

🔴 عاجل
المحكمة الجزائية المتخصصة تؤجل موعد النطق بالحكم على الشيخ #سلمان_العودة إلى الأربعاء 30 أكتوبر 2019. pic.twitter.com/8c4izgbVZg

— معتقلي الرأي (@m3takl) October 10, 2019

Saudi authorities arrested Salman Al-Ouda in September 2017 after posting a tweet welcoming the possibility of restoring relations with the State of Qatar, the Gulf country that the Saudi regime imposed a siege on in June 2017.

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