{"id":16685,"date":"2025-04-29T12:40:51","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T12:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/?p=16685"},"modified":"2025-04-29T12:46:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T12:46:50","slug":"saudi-scholar-qasem-al-qathardi-dies-in-prison-amid-ongoing-crackdown-on-free-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/2025\/04\/29\/saudi-scholar-qasem-al-qathardi-dies-in-prison-amid-ongoing-crackdown-on-free-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Scholar Qasem Al-Qathardi Dies in Prison Amid Ongoing Crackdown on Free Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Watan<\/strong><\/em>-In a new incident highlighting the ongoing violations against scholars and preachers in Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Qasem Al-Qathardi has died inside Abha Prison after years of unjust imprisonment and continuous suffering. His death was not natural; it was a direct result of the Saudi regime\u2019s policies of repression and abuse against every independent voice \u2014 even those advocating moderate religious thought.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1267\" data-end=\"1790\">Sheikh Al-Qathardi, who was never affiliated with any political organization or involved in any confrontation with the state, was arrested in 2021 simply for attending a religious seminar by Sheikh Awad Al-Qarni nine years earlier and for possessing two books that were publicly available in libraries at the time. The charges brought against him were absurd: \u201cundermining national unity\u201d and \u201cadopting extremist thought,\u201d reflecting the nature of political trials that target freedom of opinion and thought in the Kingdom.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13309\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13309\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13309 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Israelimmm444-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Saudi Arabia regime\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Israelimmm444-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Israelimmm444-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Israelimmm444-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Israelimmm444-390x220.jpg 390w, https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Israelimmm444.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13309\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saudi Arabia regime<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 data-start=\"53\" data-end=\"143\"><strong data-start=\"72\" data-end=\"143\">Death of Saudi Scholar Al-Qathardi Sparks Outcry Against Repression<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1792\" data-end=\"2171\">Despite his advanced age and deteriorating health, Saudi authorities refused to release Al-Qathardi, leading to his last breath behind bars. His death sparked a wave of sadness and anger across social media, with his students, colleagues, and human rights activists mourning his loss, stressing that what happened is an unforgivable crime and a blatant violation of human rights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"2173\" data-end=\"2632\">The plight of scholars and preachers in Saudi Arabia remains a symbol of a dark era marked by suppression and silencing of dissent. The death of Al-Qathardi, a professor of Quranic studies and the head of the Tarteel Quran Memorization Association, is not just an isolated incident \u2014 it is yet another blow revealing how arenas of knowledge have been transformed into grounds for persecution, and how free expression is now prosecuted under terrorism charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"2634\" data-end=\"2860\">The message from this tragedy is clear: there is no place for free thought under a regime that fears words more than bullets. Thrones that silence their scholars today are merely building the foundations of their own downfall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watan-In a new incident highlighting the ongoing violations against scholars and preachers in Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Qasem Al-Qathardi has died inside Abha Prison after years of unjust imprisonment and continuous suffering. His death was not natural; it was a direct result of the Saudi regime\u2019s policies of repression and abuse against every independent voice \u2014 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[5137,5138],"class_list":["post-16685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-qasem-al-qathardi","tag-the-saudi-arabia-regime"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v27.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Saudi Scholar Qasem Al-Qathardi Dies in Prison Amid Ongoing Crackdown on Free Thought - Watan<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Qasem Al-Qathardi, a moderate Saudi scholar, has died in Abha Prison after years of unjust detention.. 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