Khalil Janahi is a citizen of

Bahrain Bahrain ( ; ; ar, البحرين, al-Bahrayn, locally ), officially the Kingdom of Bahrain, ' is an island country in Western Asia. It is situated on the Persian Gulf, and comprises a small archipelago made up of 50 natural islands and an ...

and

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who was arrested and held in

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in April 2007.
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extrajudicial detention Administrative detention is arrest and detention of individuals by the state without trial. A number of jurisdictions claim that it is done for security reasons. Many countries claim to use administrative detention as a means to combat terrorism ...

, and that of fellow Bahraini Abdurahim Al Murbati, was of ''"urgent importance, given their length of time in custody without charge."'' Although charges were never laid against Janahi he is reported to have been apprehended on suspicion of an association with

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. He spent his first four months under

arbitrary detention Arbitrary arrest and arbitrary detention are the arrest or detention of an individual in a case in which there is no likelihood or evidence that they committed a crime against legal statute, or in which there has been no proper due process of law ...

ʽUlaysha Prison ʽUlaysha Prison (also ''ʽUlaisha'', ''Alisha'', ''Olisha'', ) is a prison in Riyadh run by the Saudi Arabian secret police agency Mabahith for arbitrary detention. During the 2011 Saudi Arabian protests, "the only brave man in Saudi Arabia", K ...

without access to his family. In September, he was moved from the

al-Ha'ir prison Al-Ha'ir Prison, ( ar, سجن الحاير also known as al-Hayer al-Hayar or al-Haer), is a Saudi Arabian political, maximum-security, Mabahith-affiliated prison located approximately 25 miles south of Riyadh. It is the largest prison complex in ...

to a more lenient facility. On 27 November 2008 the ''

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'' reported that Janahi had been transferred to a prison in Dubai on 24 November 2008. Janahi was freed on 11 June 2009, without having had access to lawyers, without any charges laid and without a trial, in either Saudi Arabia or Dubai.

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