{"id":192182,"date":"2025-02-25T02:46:42","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T00:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-saudi-arabia-egyptian-at-risk-of-forced-return\/"},"modified":"2025-02-25T02:46:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T00:46:42","slug":"egypt-saudi-arabia-egyptian-at-risk-of-forced-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-saudi-arabia-egyptian-at-risk-of-forced-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: Saudi Arabia &#8211; Egyptian At Risk of Forced Return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"5\">Beirut \u2014 <em>Faces Possible Arbitrary Detention, Torture<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/middle-east\/north-africa\/saudi-arabia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Saudi<\/a> authorities should not extradite an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/middle-east\/n-africa\/egypt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Egyptian<\/a> citizen to Egypt, where he is at serious risk of arbitrary detention and torture, Human Rights Watch said today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"76\">Saudi authorities arbitrarily detained Ahmed Kamel at a police station in Jeddah on November 13, 2024, in relation to an alleged extradition request reportedly issued by Egypt. On December 10, 2021, an Egyptian criminal court had sentenced Kamel to life in prison in absentia based&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502240033.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beirut \u2014 Faces Possible Arbitrary Detention, Torture Saudi authorities should not extradite an Egyptian citizen to Egypt, where he is at serious risk of arbitrary detention and torture, Human Rights Watch said today. Saudi authorities arbitrarily detained Ahmed Kamel at a police station in Jeddah on November 13, 2024, in relation to an alleged extradition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":192183,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,10999,4697,415,6639,9512,257,6656,9590,9388,254],"class_list":["post-192182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arabia","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-egyptian","tag-forced","tag-news","tag-return","tag-risk","tag-saudi","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}