 On 27 November 2008 the "Gulf Daily News" reported that Janahi had been transferred to a prison in Dubai on 24 November 2008.Janahi was freed on 11 June 2009, without having had access to lawyers, without any charges laid and without a trial, in either Saudi Arabia or Dubai.On August 2, 2010, "Newsblaze" reported on an incident where Bahraini police had been recorded beating a Saudi citizen.