Personal Info
- Country of residence: Palestine
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He is a Palestinian poet and plastic artist residing in Saudi Arabia, and he was born there in 1980.
His most prominent works
A poetry collection was issued to him in 2008 entitled Instructions Inside, and he appeared in an interview with the cultural channel of the Saudi state TV. He represented Saudi Arabia in one of the international cultural exhibitions in Venice, Italy, and he was the assistant secretary of the Saudi pavilion in the exhibition.
His arrest and trial
He was arrested for the first time in August 2013 on charges of atheism and blasphemy after a complaint submitted by a person to the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, but he was released after only one day, and was arrested again from a café in the city of Abha in January 2014 on charges of transgressing the divine and spreading the ideas of atheism in His poetry collection The Instructions Inside Issued in 2008 and April 2014 the court sentenced him to 4 years in prison and 800 lashes and on appeal the General Court in Abha on November 17, 2015 sentenced him to death for apostasy and on February 2, 2016 the previous sentence was rescinded and reduced to 8 years in prison and 800 lashes amid the objection of lawyer Abdul Rahman Al-Lahim, who demanded the immediate release of his client, Ashraf Fayyad.
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