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Ali Al-Domaini

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Pro-democracy activist Al-Domaini was arrested in March 2004 for criticizing Saudi Arabia's National Commission of Human Rights and planning to set up his own organization. In August 2005, he was pardoned and released, he later faced travel restrictions. On April 25, 2022, Al-Domaini passed due to illness at age 74. He had been sentenced in May 2005 to nine years in prison for disseminating news deemed critical of the state. PEN America honored him that year with the PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award.