Awad al-Qarni

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Awad al-Qarni is imprisoned and sentenced to death for his religious belief and leadership role. 

In September 2017, authorities arrested Qarni, a renowned Sunni preacher and scholar, amid a wave of arrests of religious leaders and intellectuals. Authorities confined him at Dhahban Central Prison, Jeddah, and charged him with inciting insults to the heads of State, supporting the Muslim Brotherhood, and joining a terrorist entity. 

In September 2018, judicial authorities sentenced him to death. During detention, authorities kept al-Qarni in solitary confinement.