page_title: Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association
section_title: Government responses
hierarchical_section_title: Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association / Government responses
caption_attribution_description: العربية: صورة جماعية لحضور الجلسة السادسة.English: A group photo of 6th trial session attendees.
context_page_description: The Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association is a Saudi Arabian human rights non-governmental organisation created in 2009. On 9 March 2013, the Saudi court sentenced two of its prominent leaders to at least 10 years in prison for "offences that included sedition and giving inaccurate information to foreign media", while dissolving the group. The association is also known in Arabic by its acronym HASEM.
context_section_description: ACPRA co-founder Mohammed Saleh al-Bejadi (also al-Bjady) was arrested on 21 March 2011, during the 2011 Saudi Arabian protests, in Buraidah by Mabahith, the internal security agency. ACPRA stated that the arrest was arbitrary, in violation of the Basic Law of Saudi Arabia and the Law of Criminal Procedures. Al-Bejadi appeared in the Specialized Criminal Court in August 2011 on charges of "insurrection against the ruler, instigating demonstrations, and speaking with foreign [media] channels." Judge  al-'Abd al-Latif prevented al-Bejadi's defence lawyers from attending the August trial session.
  On 18 June 2012, ACPRA co-founder and leader Mohammad Fahad al-Qahtani was charged in a Saudi court for his human rights activities. On 29 June, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies spoke on al-Qahtani's behalf at the 20th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council. Another ACPRA co-founder, Abdullah al-Hamid, was charged with similar offences on 11 June 2012.
caption: ACPRA members on trial in Riyadh in 2012
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