Nationality Bahrain | Name Khalil Janahi | |
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Known for was held without charge or trial in Saudi Arabia for 19 months starting April 2007 and for 7 months in Dubai | ||
Khalil Janahi is a citizen of Bahrain and Dubai who was arrested and held in Saudi Arabia in April 2007. According to Abdullah Hashim lawyer for the Bahrain's National Justice Movement, speaking in July 2008, Janahi's extrajudicial detention, 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 al-Qaeda. He spent his first four months under arbitrary detention at `Ulaysha Prison 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 Gulf Daily News 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.
On August 2, 2010, Newsblaze reported on an incident where Bahraini police had been recorded beating a Saudi citizen. Newsblaze speculated that Saudi officials had not complained about the incident because Saudi Arabia did not want to explain its detention of Janahi, Abdurrahim Al Murbati, and Abdullah Al Nuaimi.