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Former Imam of Mecca Sheikh Saleh al Taleb jailed for 10 years for ‘a sermon’: Watch

Monitor News Desk by Monitor News Desk
Aug. 24, 2022 Updated 12:43 pm. IST
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Former Imam of Mecca Sheikh Saleh al Taleb jailed for 10 years for a sermon

Source: Twitter



Sheikh Saleh al-Taleb, a former imam of the Great Mosque of Mecca, Islam’s holiest site, has been sentenced to ten years in prison by Saudi authorities, according to rights group ‘Prisoners of Conscience’.

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The Court of Appeals overturned an initial decision by the Specialised Criminal Court that had acquitted Sheikh Al-Taleb, instead giving him a formal jail sentence, according to the rights group.

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🔴Confirmed to us that the Court of Appeal reversed the release ruling against the imam of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Sheikh Saleh Al-Talib, and issued a ten-year prison sentence against him. pic.twitter.com/wWcdrLJgsP

— Prisoners of Conscience (@m3takl_en) August 23, 2022

Sheikh Saleh al-Taleb was initially arrested in August 2018. There was no official explanation for the 48-year-old’s detention, but rights groups say his arrest came after he delivered a sermon on the duty of Muslims to speak out against evil in public.

Here is that sermon that could have been the reason for his arrest:

اللهم فك أسره!
الحكم على إمام الحرم المكي الشيخ #صالح_آل_طالب بالسجن عشر سنين بسبب هذه الخطبة!
إذا لم يقم خطيب الجمعة وإمام البيت الحرام بالأمر بالمعروف والنهي عن المنكر والدعوة إلى الإصلاح فما هي وظيفته إذاً!
﴿ولتكن منكم أمة يدعون إلى الخير ويأمرون بالمعروف وينهون عن المنكر﴾ pic.twitter.com/12acS1sdFC

— أ.د. حاكم المطيري (@DrHAKEM) August 22, 2022

Saudi Arabia is known for routinely imprisoning activists, journalists, and preachers without a clear cause.

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Dozens of preachers have reportedly been arrested since 2017, including some who called for reconciliation between the Gulf States when Saudi Arabia orchestrated a siege against neighbouring Qatar.

Many of those clerics are still in jail, despite relations between the neighbours since being normalised.

Last week, Saudi authorities sentenced doctoral student Salma Al-Shehab to 34 years behind bars for tweets critical of the government, triggering outrage worldwide.

Tags: former makkah imam jailedformer mecca imam jailedimam of grand mosque in mecca jailedmakkah imam sentenced to 10 yearsprisoners of consciencesheikh saleh al taleb jailedsheikh saleh al talib jailed

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