A Saudi human rights activist in Canada said the Saudi government had tried to assassinate him to its embassy in Ottawa, like Jamal Khashgechi.
Waleed al-Hazloul, the brother of the famous Saudi prisoner Lajin al-Hazloul, wrote on his Twitter page that the Saudi embassy in Canada had tried to drag him inside the embassy and assassinate him, like Jamal Khashgechi.
Al-Hazlul wrote that Muhammad bin Salman wanted to punish all members of his family, and when he applied to the embassy for an extension of his passport, he was told he had to go to the embassy in person, while the process could be done in absentia.
His sister “Alia al-Hazlul” also wrote on her Twitter page: “This is not the thinking and rationality of a country that wants to build the city of spacemen [referring to the construction of the Line Smart City]. Any official in Saudi Arabia who thinks that he is serving his country by harassing a citizen knows that he will be arrest soon.”
Prominent Saudi human rights activist Madawi al-Rasheed also wrote in response to Walid al-Hazloul’s tweet that Saudi officials had carried out mass executions, increasing the number of people seeking asylum in Saudi Arabia.
American politician and human rights activist Bill Browder also wrote that everyone knows what happens when opponents of the Saudi government enter the Saudi embassy.
A court in Riyadh finally sentenced him to five years and eight months in prison on January 29, more than two years after the arrest of Lajin al-Hazloul, a female detainee in Saudi Arabia. His family has repeatedly said that the Saudi government is trying to force them to return to Saudi Arabia by using Lajin al-Hazlul.