Salman al-Awda (prominent Saudi reformist cleric; detained Sept 2017) — per Human Rights Watch (7 Jan 2018): ordered to tweet support for the Saudi-led blockade of Qatar, he instead posted a call for Gulf reconciliation ("may God harmonize between their hearts for the good of their people") and was detained, held in solitary confinement without charge, with travel bans imposed on his family.

He said he believed that al-Awda was being held because he hadn’t complied with an order from Saudi authorities to tweet a specific text to support the Saudi-led isolation of Qatar. Instead, he posted a tweet on September 9, the second part of which stated, “may God harmonize between their hearts for the good of their people,” an apparent call for reconciliation between the Gulf countries.

[Source is English (Human Rights Watch); the stored passage is HRW's verbatim text, which contains HRW's English rendering of al-Awda's original ARABIC tweet — the Arabic original could not be fetched for character-for-character confirmation, so original_language is recorded as the stored (English) text. Provenance flag for the auditor: an Arabic-original document for this statement is still wanted.] Declared position of Salman al-Awda (al-Ouda) — one of Saudi Arabia's most prominent clerics, a former Sahwa (Islamic Awakening) figure who became a reform-minded voice calling for greater political participation and rule of law. Per HRW (report dated 7 January 2018): in September 2017, amid the Saudi-UAE-Egypt-Bahrain blockade of Qatar, authorities ordered al-Awda to tweet a specific text endorsing the isolation of Qatar; he declined and instead posted a tweet whose second part read "may God harmonize between their hearts for the good of their people" — an apparent call for Gulf reconciliation. HRW reports he was detained on 7 September 2017, held in solitary confinement without charge or questioning, permitted only one 13-minute phone call, and that authorities imposed travel bans on 17 members of his immediate family — part of a coordinated crackdown on dissidents, writers and clerics under broad, catch-all charges designed to criminalize peaceful dissent. (Subsequent HRW and rights-group reporting states prosecutors later brought dozens of charges and sought the death penalty against him, and that he remains imprisoned despite the 2021 Saudi–Qatar reconciliation — NOT confirmed from the fetched January 2018 source.) This captures Saudi INTERNAL reformist dissent and its civil-liberties cost under Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman — distinct from the MBS-establishment positions elsewhere in the dataset. [Axes: civil-liberties, regime-stance, regional-stance (Gulf/Qatar). A declared statement — the tweet — paired with the behavioral fact of his detention.]