The first telephone contact with the family took place four days after his arrest, the two rights groups said. When his family initially tried to inquire about his whereabouts, they did not receive any response from the authorities. “His belongings contained no political content, whether electronically or among his books, and he does not have any social media accounts or email,” the ECRF said in a joint statement with the Gulf Centre for Human Rights. Upon his arrest, all of his personal devices - including his laptop, two mobile phones, and 13 memory sticks - in addition to all of his medical books, were confiscated. However, her passport was also confiscated and was not returned to her until about a week later. When his wife, who lived with him, inquired about the reason for his arrest, they answered that it was only to “ask him a few questions and he will be brought back right away”, according to the ECRF.
Two weeks before the date of the session, on 28 January 2020, he was arrested by a group that identified itself as a security agency affiliated with the General Directorate of Investigations in Tabuk City. As a result, Shalaby booked tickets to return to Egypt after the date of the appeal hearing.
In the end, a verdict was passed in his favour in 2019 and a ruling was issued to settle his salary retroactively since the initiation of the contract.īut the ministry appealed the ruling and arbitrarily terminated his contract, issuing him a final exit visa. The doctor filed a lawsuit before a Saudi court in 2017, which lasted for two years. Prior to his arrest, Shalaby worked for the Saudi health ministry from 2006 until the end of 2019, but 10 years after his work, he discovered that he had been registered on the ministry’s system with a job title lower than his actual one. The ECRF, in a joint statement with the Gulf Centre for Human Rights, has previously suggested the timing of the arrest was related to a verdict on a lawsuit he filed against the Saudi health ministry to pay him financial dues. Shalaby, however, has denied the charges, and rights groups who documented his case have ruled out the possibility of his ability to vote in the 2012 election, given his location at the time. Human Rights Watch criticised Egypt’s designation of the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group in 2013, dismissing it as "politically driven" and "aimed at expanding a crackdown on the Brotherhood’s peaceful activities". Morsi was a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood, a group outlawed as a “terrorist organisation” by Saudi Arabia and Egypt following the coup against Morsi in 2013, led by then-defence minister Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who is now president. The evidence brought against Shalaby was a testimony given by a fellow prisoner who alleged that he voted for the late President Mohamed Morsi in the 2012 Egyptian presidential election. The Saudi authorities must 'immediately and unconditionally release' Shalaby An Egyptian doctor who is a former employee at the Saudi health ministry was sentenced to 20 years in prison in Saudi Arabia on Monday, on charges of supporting the Muslim Brotherhood, a rights group said.Īccording to the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms (ECRF), the Specialised Criminal Court in Riyadh - which hears cases related to terrorism - handed the sentence to the Egyptian physician, Sabri Massad Ibrahim Shalaby, who has been detained since January 2020.
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