Abdurrahim Al Murbati is a citizen of

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who has been held in

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since June 2003.
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'' reported on July 7, 2008 that Al Murbati had been held in Haer prison south of the Saudi capital

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. His son Osama had been allowed regular visits to him, until recently, when he was told his father had been moved. Saudi authorities had withheld Al Murbati's current location. Abdurrahim Al Murbati is the brother of former

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Issa Al Murbati. On September 21, 2008 the Bahrain Human Rights Watch Society launched another appeal for the release of Al Murbati and Khalil Janahi. The ''Gulf Daily News'' reported that the two men had recently been transferred to a prison in

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, in eastern Saudi Arabia, nearer to Bahrain.

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