Saudi Arabia released Mohammed al-Khudari the former Hamas representative in the Kingdom after more than three years of detention a Hamas source revealed on Wednesday morning.
Ezzat al-Resheq a member of the Hamas political bureau affirmed in a tweet that Mohammed al-Khudari was released this morning and is heading to Amman in a plane.
In September 2019 Hamas announced that Saudi Arabia had arrested al-Khudari and his son as part of a campaign that had targeted dozens of Palestinian and Jordanian nationals.
He was sentenced to 15 years in prison for supporting the Palestinian resistance. His prison sentence was later reduced to 6 years of which three years were suspended.
Al-Khudari 84 is a veteran Hamas leader who was responsible for managing the Movement’s relationship with Saudi Arabia for two decades.
Amnesty International had sent a letter to King Salman bin Abdulaziz calling for al-Khudari’s immediate release after his serious health deterioration.
