Sheikh Omar al-Muqbil , a professor of Islamic law at
Qassim University in Saudi Arabia has been arrested and
detained after he criticised the policies of the General
Entertainment Authority (GEA) as a threat to the kingdom’s
culture.
The prisoners’ rights group, the Prisoners of Conscience,
made Muabil’s detention known in a Twitter post. According
to Al-Jazeera, the group said the scholar was arrested after
a video in which he described the GEA’s actions as “erasing
the original identity of society”. The video has been
trending.
“This is a continuation of the arbitrary arrests that
have taken place in the kingdom for the past two
years, which are aimed at leading scholars, sheikhs
and other free thinkers,” the Prisoners of
Conscience group said.
Over the past year, the GEA has hosted a number of music
stars including Mariah Carey, Janet Jackson and Sean Paul,
in an attempt to boost the image of Saudi Arabia
globally. Last year, the authority announced plans to invest
$64bn in the entertainment sector during the next decade
as part of a programme of social and economic reforms
driven by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the de
facto ruler of the world’s top oil exporter.
The reforms stem partly from an economic motive to
increase domestic spending on entertainment and attract
Western investment to offset the effect of a slump in the
price of oil that began in 2014. Other measures include
ending decades-long bans on women driving, cinemas and
mixed-gender concerts. But activists have pointed out that
the focus on entertainment is meant as a distraction from
the kingdom’s poor human rights record.
Scores of academics, economists, writers and human rights
activists have been arrested in recent years in an apparent
bid to stamp out dissent and opposition to Prince
Mohammed, who has consolidated power with a purported
anti-corruption crackdown.
The kingdom also faces widespread international criticism
over the assassination of Washington Post columnist Jamal
Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul almost a year
ago, allegedly by members of q Mohammed’s
entourage, as well as over its long-running war in Yemen.





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