Nawwaf bin Talal Al Rashid

His father is Talal bin Abdulaziz who was a poet and grandson of Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Rashid a ruler of Ha'il at the beginning of the 20th century.^[2][3] Talal bin Abdulaziz died in Algeria in 2003 when he was on a camping trip.^[2][4] During the incident Nawwaf was with his father.^[4] His mother is a Qatari, and following the death of his father Nawwaf settled in Doha, Qatar,^[5] and gained Qatari nationality.^[4] He is a distant cousin of Madawi Al Rashid, a British scholar.^[2][3][4]

On 12 May 2018 during his visit to Kuwait Nawwaf, aged 29, was arrested there by National Security forces and deported to Saudi Arabia on the request of the Saudi authorities.^[6][7] Nawwaf bin Talal had been invited by Kuwaiti poet Abdelkarim Al Jabari who is a member of the Shammar tribe which the Al Rashids also part of, to join an activity organized in his honour.^[4] Human Rights Watch considered his arrest and deportation as another example of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's human rights abuses.^[6] Before his deportation to Saudi Arabia Nawwaf was a student at Qatar University.^[6]

In late March 2019 Nawwaf bin Talal was released by the Saudi after ten months in arbitrary detention.^[7]