Hassan Farhan al-Maliki

Hassan Farhan al-Maliki is a Saudi religious reformist thinker who was arrested in September 2017 and put on trial in October 2018 by Saudi authorities. He was arrested for a host of reasons, namely his opinions about the veracity of certain sayings attributed to the Islamic prophet Muhammad, his criticism of several 7th century Islamic figures, "insulting the country's rulers and the Supreme Council of Religious Scholars, and describing them as extremist", accusing Gulf countries of supporting