{"id":211746,"date":"2025-10-29T12:47:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T10:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-saudi-arabia-release-10-nubian-egyptian-men-immediately\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T12:47:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T10:47:12","slug":"egypt-saudi-arabia-release-10-nubian-egyptian-men-immediately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-saudi-arabia-release-10-nubian-egyptian-men-immediately\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: Saudi Arabia &#8211; Release 10 Nubian Egyptian Men Immediately"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"7\">Beirut \u2014 <em>Imprisoned for Promoting Nubian Cultural Heritage <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/middle-east\/north-africa\/saudi-arabia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Saudi<\/a> authorities should immediately release 10 Nubian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/middle-east\/n-africa\/egypt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Egyptians<\/a> who have been unjustly detained for over 5 years, Human Rights Watch said today. On September 6, 2025, the Specialized Criminal Court (SCC) in Riyadh reduced the sentences of the prisoners on appeal, yet all 10 remain unjustly detained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">Saudi authorities <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2022\/03\/16\/saudi-arabia-10-egyptian-nubians-held-unjustly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">arrested<\/a> the 10 men in July 2020 and held them without charge or trial for over a year. The SCC initially sentenced the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510280053.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 Imprisoned for Promoting Nubian Cultural Heritage Saudi authorities should immediately release 10 Nubian Egyptians who have been unjustly detained for over 5 years, Human Rights Watch said today. On September 6, 2025, the Specialized Criminal Court (SCC) in Riyadh reduced the sentences of the prisoners on appeal, yet all 10 remain unjustly detained. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":211747,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,10999,4697,415,6639,9836,6801,257,39836,6011,9388,254],"class_list":["post-211746","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-immediately","tag-men","tag-news","tag-nubian","tag-release","tag-saudi","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/211746","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=211746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}