Shia Rights Watch demands urgent release of Sheikh Nimr

Shia Rights Watch Organization has stressed the necessity of urgent release of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr by the Saudi authorities immediately and without delay or procrastination for social and humanitarian considerations.

The organization said that the arrest of Sheikh al-Nimr lacks the required legal justifications for he did not commit a felony that justifies his detention, adding that freedom of expression and peaceful opposition are one of the political and social rights adopted by the International Commission for the United Nations and the World Council for Humanrights.