Mohammad Fahad Muflih al-Qahtani (محمد فهد مفلح القحطاني, born 1965) is a human rights activist, economics professor and political prisoner currently jailed at Al-Ha’ir Prison in Riyadh co-founding and later leading the Saudi Arabia human rights organisation Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association prior to his arbitrary 2012 arrest. 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 followed by a ten year travel ban, ostensibly for "co-founding an unlicensed civil association". He has carried out several hunger strikes to protest Saudi prison conditions endured during his politically-motivated incarceration. As of 2022, he remains jailed and has been intermittentl