Inside Higher Ed: Saudi Arabia releases prof
Saudi Arabia released a noted political science and human rights activist, Matrook Al-Faleh, from prison over the weekend, without explaining his freedom or why he was held in a maximum security facility for nearly eight months, CNN reported. Al-Faleh, a professor at King Saud University, was detained shortly after he spoke out against prison conditions in the country. Several human rights and academic groups — including the American Political Science Association and the Middle East Studies Association — have been seeking his release. In 2004, the Middle East Studies Association gave Al-Faleh an academic freedom award for his work on behalf of academics and others in need of freedom of speech in Saudi Arabia.
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