Mohammad Fahad al-Qahtani

Mohammad Fahad Muflih al-Qahtani محمد فهد مفلح القحطاني
Mohammad al-Qahtani in December 2012
Born	1965/1966 (age 51–52)
Nationality	Saudi
Occupation	economics professor at the Institute of Diplomatic Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Saudi Arabia)
Known for	co-founding of ACPRA
Children	5

Mohammad Fahad Muflih al-Qahtani (محمد فهد مفلح القحطاني, born 1965 or 1966) is an economics professor and co-founder of the Saudi Arabian human rights organisation Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association (ACPRA) and, during 2011, its leader.Alkarama described al-Qahtani as "one of [the Saudi Arabian judiciary's] most eloquent and fervent critics". On 9 March 2013, al-Qahtani was sentenced to ten years in prison and ten years of travel ban after being convicted of several charges relating to his human rights activities.

Mohammad Fahad al-Qahtani has a PhD from Indiana University in the United States. As of June 2012^[update], he was employed as an economics professor at the Institute of Diplomatic Affairs of the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

In November 2008, al-Qahtani was among 20 human rights activists who started a two-day hunger strike in protest against the imprisonment without fair, public trials of 11 activists, including Suliman al-Reshoudi and former university professors. Al-Qahtani stated that petitions calling for the activists to receive fair trials and better conditions of detention were ignored, and that freedom of speech and freedom of assembly were not respected in Saudi Arabia.

Al-Qahtani co-founded the Saudi Arabian human rights organisation Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association (ACPRA) in October 2009 together with Mohammed Saleh al-Bejadi and nine others. As of June 2012^[update], he continued to be active in ACPRA.