Salman al-Ouda
In September 2017, a reformist scholar of Islamic law, Salman al-Ouda was arrested by Saudi authorities for "terrorism and conspiracy against the state", along with some other prominent activists and preachers. After three years of solitary confinement in Saudi, al-Ouda’s son, Abdullah Alaoudh highlighted in a December 2020 opinion piece in "The New York Times" that the physical and mental health of his father was declining. He said medical malpractice and negligence was common in Saudi prisons. Appealing the president-elect Joe Biden’s administration, he said that as per the lawyers, the Kingdom was seeking death penalty for Salman al-Ouda on 37 charges.