Khalil Janahi is a citizen of

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and

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who was arrested and held in

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in April 2007.
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, 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

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. He spent his first four months under

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without access to his family. In September, he was moved from the al-Ha'ir prison to a more lenient facility. On 27 November 2008 the ''

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'' reported that Janahi had been transferred to a prison in Dubai on 24 November 2008. 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.

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