""Peaceful dissidents continue to be locked up for speaking out, while convicted criminals get amnesty," said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. "Apparently the government considers reform advocates a greater danger to their authority." Saudi secret police arrested al-Faleh, a professor of political science at King Saud University in Riyadh, on May 19, 2008 at the university. The arrest came two days after he publicly criticized conditions in Buraida prison following a visit to two fellow human rights activists being held there."