Khalil Janahi
NationalityBahrain
Known forwas held without charge or trial in Saudi Arabia for 19 months starting April 2007 and for 7 months in Dubai[1]

Khalil Janahi is a citizen of Bahrain and Dubai who was arrested and held in Saudi Arabia in April 2007.[2][3][4][5] According to Abdullah Hashim lawyer for the Bahrain's National Justice Movement, speaking in July 2008, Janahi's extrajudicial detention, and that of fellow Bahraini Abdurahim Al Murbati, was of "urgent importance, given their length of time in custody without charge."

Although charges were never laid against Janahi he is reported to have been apprehended on suspicion of an association with al-Qaeda.[4] He spent his first four months under arbitrary detention at ʽUlaysha Prison without access to his family.[1] In September, he was moved from the al-Ha'ir prison to a more lenient facility.

On 27 November 2008 the Gulf Daily News reported that Janahi had been transferred to a prison in Dubai on 24 November 2008.[4] Janahi was freed on 11 June 2009, without having had access to lawyers, without any charges laid and without a trial, in either Saudi Arabia or Dubai.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Case study of Khalil al-Janahi" (pdf). July 2009. Retrieved 2011-06-09.
  2. ↑ "Two Bahrainis in Saudi jails". Gulf Daily News. 2008-07-16. Archived from the original on 2008-09-25. Retrieved 2008-07-16. mirror
  3. ↑ "Family in new bid to trace Qaeda suspect". Gulf Daily News. 2008-07-07. Retrieved 2008-07-16. Some tell us he is still in Riyadh, others that he is in Assir, while others say he has been moved to Bahrain. mirror
  4. 1 2 3 mandeep singh (2008-09-22). "Appeal to free Saudi jail duo". Gulf Daily News. Vol. 31, no. 186. Archived from the original on September 25, 2008. Retrieved 2008-09-25.
  5. ↑ Rasha Al Qahtani (2008-11-27). "Bahraini may be freed soon". Gulf Daily News. Vol. 31, no. 252. Archived from the original on 2008-12-01. Retrieved 2008-11-28.


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