Sa'ad Al-Faqih

Sa ʿ d al -Faqih (Arabic: سعد الفقيه; born January 2, 1957 in Zubair, Iraq, in other spellings also Sa'ad Al- Faghi, Sa'ad Al- Fagih, Sa'ad Al- Fakih or Sa'ad al- Faki ) is a Muslim Saudi Arabian dissident who now lives in exile in London. He is a critic of the Saudi royal family.

Sa'ad al -Faqih and March 1994 was professor of surgery at the King Saud University and was arrested for his involvement in the Islamic reform movement. After his release, he became director of the London office of the Committee for the Defense of Legitimate Rights ( CDLR ), the leading Saudi opposition group. He left the CDLR 1996 and founded the Islamic Reform Movement, the Movement for Islamic Reform in Arabia ( MIRA ). It advocates the separation of powers, freedom of expression and women's rights, things that denies the MIRA the Saudi government. The group had called in 2003 for a demonstration in Saudi Arabia, with the Saudi by the police than 350 arrests were made.

Reports the BBC, according to al -Faqih was in the same year are victims of an attack. Two men sought him out in his apartment and injured him with stab wounds to the leg; the wound had to be treated in hospital. The men should have said when leaving the house: " the barrel as a message to the Saudi government ." In December 2004, the U.S. government al -Faqih classified as a terrorist; they accuse him of financial support for the al -Qaida organization, which al -Faqih but denies: The U.S. government took this step because al -Faqih is critical of the Saudi regime.

The Israel-based group Sofir ( Society for Internet Research ) for monitoring Islamist extremists accused al -Faqih to have led the controversial site of al - Qal ʿ a ( Arabic القلعة ), on the militant Islamists among other things, terrorist attacks on 7 July have announced in London in 2005. Al -Faqih denied this claim; they only serve the purpose to harm his reputation.

In addition, al -Faqih was in contact with Osama bin Laden, among other things, he should have been caring for its used for the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 terrorist fighters in Afghan camps. In an interview with the TV magazine Frontline of the U.S. channel PBS he said among other things that the name al -Qaida an invention of the West was the name of Osama bin Laden's terror network, since the original concept was merely a list of people who had visited Bin Laden guest house in Peshawar ( cf. al - Qaeda: Controversial naming).

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  • Press Release from the U.S. government regarding al - Faqihs classification as a terrorist.
  • Article in the late edition of the New York Times of 27 October 2003
  • Interview with al -Faqih led by Mahan Abedin
  • Interview with al -Faqih on Frontline ( in English)
  • Telepolis articles with partial translation of the interview
  • Interview with al -Faqih by the Asia Times, April 2006 ( in English)
  • Dissident
  • Saudi Arab
  • Born in 1957
  • Man
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