Shrouded in Secrecy: Detentions in Saudi Arabia

The Human Rights Implications and Remedies

Hosted by Andy Slaughter MP

The Arab Organisation for Human Rights in the UK (AOHR UK) invites you to participate in a seminar about the waves of arrests in Saudi Arabia of prominent human rights defenders and opponents of the government.

It is very difficult to know the numbers of men and women who have been imprisoned as the national authorities have released no reliable statistics, and in many cases have prohibited detainees from having access to lawyers and their families.

What can be done about this situation and to obtain justice for those detained unlawfully? A high profile panel of experts and lawyers will address this subject.

Speakers:

Prof. Paul Moorcroft | Is the Director of the Centre for Foreign Policy Analysis, London. He is a renown expert and writer on international security and foreign policy issues. He has worked for Time Magazine and the BBC, and in over 30 war zones. He is a former senior instructor at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst.

Abdullah Ghamdi | Is a Saudi national whose mother is detained in prison in Saudi Arabia.

Aidan Ellis | Is a Barrister practising at Temple Garden Chambers, London and The Hague. He is a specialist in International human rights law. He has appeared in cases before the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) as well as the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights.

Dr. Nicola Palmer | Is a senior lecturer at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College, London. Her areas of expertise cover international criminal law and transnational justice and she has written extensively in these fields.She is author of ‘Courts in Conflict: Interpreting the layers of justice in post-genocide Rwanda’ (OUP, 2015).

Myles Grandison | Is a Barrister who specialises in extradition and public law. He has acted in several high profile extradition cases including in respect of the UAE. He is ranked and highly recommended in Chambers and Partners and in the Legal 500 in the fields of international criminal law and extradition.

Rodney Dixon QC | Is a leading international law Barrister and expert. He is the co-author of a legal report with Lord Ken Macdonald QC dealing with detentions of human rights defenders in Saudi Arabia. The report has been submitted to the UN Human Rights Council.

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