ICC accused the Saudi Government of "leading Fahmy in circles" by promising to let him leave the country but in the end blocking his path.
In the latest incident, he was told that all he needed to do to exit the country was file some departure applications after Egyptian officials raised his situation with the Saudi Government. Fahmy filed the papers, but the application was rejected and ICC claimed Saudi officials laughed in his Fahmy's face for attempting to leave.
Saudi Arabia is notorious for its religious freedom and human rights abuses. The US Commission on International Religious Freedom, an independent, bipartisan government body established to monitor religious freedom in the world, recommended to the US State Department again this year that Saudi Arabia be designated a Country of Particular Concern - the worst religious freedom violation label.
The US State Department has often criticised Saudi Arabia for religious intolerance and human rights abuses including a legal system with punishments such as flogging and amputation.
Christian persecution watch group Open Doors this year listed Saudi Arabia as the world's second worst Christian persecutor behind North Korea.
Moreover, the Saudi Government is accused of propagating religious intolerance through its public textbooks, which teach Muslim children to hate all non-Wahhabi Muslims.
"What is being taught today in Saudi public school textbooks about how Muslims should relate to other religious communities will poison the minds of a new generation of Saudis," said Nina Shea, then director of Freedom House's Center for Religious Freedom, during a news conference about Saudi textbooks earlier this year.
ICC and Fahmy are requesting that people contact the Saudi embassy to inform them of the growing awareness of Saudi Arabia's human rights violation in this case.
Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia, UK
30 Charles Street, W1J 5DZ
Tel: +44 (0)20 7917 3000
ukemb@mofa.gov.sa
Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia, US
601 New Hampshire Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20037
Phone: (202) 342-3800
info@saudiembassy.net
Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia, Canada
99 Bank Street Suite 901,
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1P 6B9
Telephone: (613) 237-4100
Fax: (613) 237-0567
