Abdurrahim Al Murbati

Who is Abdurrahim Al Murbati?

Abdurrahim Al Murbati is a citizen of Bahrain who has been held in extrajudicial detention in Saudi Arabia since June 2003. The Gulf Daily News reported on July 7, 2008 that Al Murbati had been held in Haer prison south of the Saudi capital Riyadh. His son Osama had been allowed regular visits to him, until recently, when he was told his father had been moved. Saudi authorities had withheld Al Murbati's current location.

Abdurrahim Al Murbati is the brother of former Guantanamo captive Issa Al Murbati.

On September 21, 2008 the Bahrain Human Rights Watch Society launched another appeal for the release of Al Murbati and Khalil Janahi. The Gulf Daily News reported that the two men had recently been transferred to a prison in Damman, in eastern Saudi Arabia, nearer to Bahrain.

On August 2, 2010, Newsblaze speculated that Saudi officials had not complained about a recent incident where Bahraini police had been recorded beating a Saudi citizen because Saudi Arabia did not want to explain its detentin of Al Murbati, Khalil Janahi and Abdullah Al Nuaimi. Newsblaze noted that Al Murbati's family were not being allowed to see him.