Awad Al-Qarni, Professor of Law, has been a political prisoner since September 2017.
Dr. Awad bin Muhammad Saeed Al-Qarni was born in 1957 in Balqarn Governorate, in the south of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Dr. Awad Al-Qarni comes from a well-known family in the south of the Arabian Peninsula.
Dr. Awad Al-Qarni obtained his MA and PhD in Islamic Sharia and Principles of Jurisprudence from Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University in Abha.
Dr. Awad Al-Qarni is one of the legal, scientific, cultural and social figures in Saudi Arabia.