Fadhil al-Manasif is a photographer and member of the Saudi human rights organization Adala Center for Human Rights. Authorities arrested him in April 2009 along with 20 others for participating in protests and again in May 2011 for disseminating information to human rights groups and international media outlets covering

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s in the Eastern Province. In April 2014 the Specialized Criminal Court sentenced al-Manasif to 15 years in prison, imposed a 15-year ban on foreign travel, and fined him 100,000 Riyals (around $US 26,660), on charges including “breaking allegiance with the ruler,” “being in contact with foreign news agencies to exaggerate news and harm the reputation of Saudi Arabia and its people,” and communicating with international

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. The punishment was later reduced to 14 years on appeal. According to

Eman al-Nafjan Eman al-Nafjan is a Saudi Arabian blogger and women's rights activist. She was detained by Saudi authorities in May 2018 along with Loujain al-Hathloul and five other women's rights activists in what Human Rights Watch interpreted as an attem ...

, writing in 2014, Saudi Arabia's the new counterterrorism law, ostensibly targeting terrorists, was being used to target anyone not agreeing with the Saudi regime. One example was Fadhil al-Manasif, who was procecuted under the same law for having "gone against the government, disturbed public order, undermined society security and state stability and incited sectarianism". The "proof" was that he had written on a napkin: “Amid the turmoil surrounding us we have to look for points of convergence and find words of unity for the sake of our country and its security. Calls for development, change and reform are charged with incitement and people are imprisoned for it. But with patience they will be an option that cannot be avoided.”Saudi activists criticize new counterterror law
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, February 6, 2014,

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