Murtaja Qureiris, once considered by lawyers and activists as the youngest political prisoner in Saudi Arabia, has been released, the European Saudi Organization for Human Rights told CNN.
His case was first highlighted in an exclusive CNN report published in 2019, which detailed how Saudi authorities arrested Qureiris when he was 13, three years after he was accused of participating in a bike protest during the 2011 Arab Spring at the age of 10. After almost four years in pre-trial detention, before his 18th birthday, he was presented with a charge sheet recommending the death penalty.
Saudi Arabia executes man who allegedly committed crimes as a minorSaudi Arabia announced in 2020 that as part of a royal decree it would abolish the death penalty for people who committed crimes as minors. Anyone who received a death sentence after being convicted of crimes they committed as a minor would receive a prison sentence of no longer than 10 years in a juvenile detention facility, according to a statement from the state-backed Human Rights Commission at the time.
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