Saudi forces arrest Iraqi professor for paying homage to late Hamas chief Haniyeh
Saudi security forces have arrested an Iraqi university professor in the holy city of Mecca as he paid homage to assassinated Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh while he was performing the Umrah Hajj rituals.
Online activists reported the arrest of Salman Dawood al-Sabawi in the kingdom via X, formerly called Twitter.
Their posts featured pictures of Sabawi holding a banner at the courtyard of the Masjid al-Haram – Islam’s holiest site, reading “I dedicate his Umrah Hajj to martyred Ismail Haniyeh” in Arabic.
Many social media users took to X, Facebook, and other social media platforms as soon as the news about the detention of Sabawi – a resident of the southern Iraqi city of Mosul – broke, demanding his immediate and unconditional release.
Haniyeh, who was in Tehran to attend the swearing-in ceremony of Iran’s new president Masoud Pezeshkian, alongside other Axis of Resistance leaders, was martyred along with his bodyguard, in an attack early on July 31.
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has warned the Israeli regime of a “harsh response” for Haniyeh’s assassination, calling it the Islamic Republic’s duty to avenge the Palestinian resistance leader’s blood.
“The criminal and terrorist Zionist regime martyred our dear guest in our homeland and left us bereaved, but it also set the ground for a harsh punishment for itself,” the Leader said.
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