A notable Saudi Arabian political activist and academic goes on hunger strike again in the kingdom\u2019s captivity to protest dire imprisonment conditions.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mohammad Fahad Muflih al-Qahtani\u2019s wife wrote in a tweet that the activist had started the protest action on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Qahtani is the co-founder of the Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association, a human rights organization. The economics professor has earned a reputation as one of the Saudi Arabian judiciary\u2019s \u201cmost eloquent and fervent critics.\u201d<\/p>\n

Qahtani\u2019s spouse described maltreatment on the part of Saudi authorities, including denying him access to his books for a year and preventing contact between him and his family members, as the reasons behind his protest measure.<\/p>\n

She said the authorities had thrown him in prison alongside a number of people suffering from mental conditions \u201cwho need to be hospitalized rather than imprisoned.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 55-year-old activist was arrested in 2013 and sentenced to 15 years in jail.<\/p>\n

Qahtani began a hunger strike together with 30 others in the kingdom\u2019s infamous maximum-security Ha\u2019er Prison last September.<\/p>\n

The protest action fell short of making the authorities stop their abuse of the inmates.<\/p>\n

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His conditions have given rise to a social media storm among his sympathizers, who have been urgently demanding that Saudi officials end the situation facing him and countless other human rights campaigners.<\/p>\n

The kingdom, which boasts about subscribing to the radical Wahhabi ideology as its official school of thought, has attracted notoriety far and wide over its intolerance of dissent.<\/p>\n

Riyadh has even manipulated its so-called counter-terrorism law to prohibit any sort of popular opposition to the state and its actions.<\/p>\n

The news concerning Qahtani\u2019s situation emerged amid frequent reports pointing to Saudi officials\u2019 unashamed execution of domestic activists, many of whom happen to face the measure at a young age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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