The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said that Saudi security forces stormed the house of Palestinian detainee Mohamed al-Khudari 83 in Jeddah yesterday and took his wife Wijdan 70 and his daughter-in-law (his detained son’s wife) to a security center.
According to Euro-Med both women were detained for hours and forced not to talk about anything related to the case of their husbands in prison and their incarceration conditions.
The women were released after the security authorities forced them to sign a pledge not to talk about the health and incarceration conditions of prisoner Mohamed Khudari in particular.
According to testimonies collected by the Euro-Med team security officers interrogated al-Khudari’s wife searched and filmed her house and confiscated her phone.
The Saudi security authorities threatened Wijdan to deport her and her entire family and informed her of their annoyance at her family’s appeals for the release of her husband and son.
Euro-Med strongly denounced the Saudi security authorities for storming Khudari’s home describing such practice as “a new attempt to intimidate and silence the family.”
“Forcing the family into silence or threatening deportation is both immoral and illegal. All concerned parties must intervene to stop these aggregated violations against the prisoner and his family” the human rights group said.
In 2019 the Saudi security authorities carried out an unjustified crackdown on Palestinian citizens rounding up dozens of them including doctors engineers and traders across the country. Most of those detainees have been living in the Kingdom for many years.
Among the detainees is Hamas official Mohamed al-Khudari 83 and his son Hani 49. They were arrested on April 4 2019.
Khudari has been living officially in Saudi Arabia for over 30 years and represented the Hamas Movement between mid-1990s and 2003 in the country.
The Saudi authorities accuse the detainees of being involved in activities and charitable work in support of their people and national cause.
