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Sudanese national Hamad al-Neyl Abu Kassawy makes a living as a "suitcase trader," travelling between Sudan, Syria and the United Arab Emirates buying and selling household goods and clothes. This provides the sole income for his family in Sudan (his wife and three children and also his elderly parents). He flew from Syria to the Saudi Arabian city of Madina on 26 June 2004, and was arrested on arrival; since then he has been held with very little information made available about his case. He had come to Madina to carry out a form of Islamic pilgrimage, ‘umra while on his way back to Sudan. His family heard nothing until February 2005, when a Saudi Arabian national who had visited a prison in Madina told them that Hamad al-Neyl Abu Kassawy was being detained there on suspicion of belonging to an Islamist organization.