Hassan Al-Zahrani visited the suspect, who is accused of sexually assaulting children aged between six and 10, on Sunday after he spent 60 days in custody. The Human Rights Commission (HRC) had intervened to ensure his visitation rights were restored.

"My brother was tortured by the Jeddah police to the point that he told the police he would confess to any crime apart from the one he had been accused of," he told Arab News.

Al-Zahrani described his brother as miserable and said the police was determined to frame him for crimes he did not commit.

Legal adviser to the HRC and professor of law at King Abdulaziz University Omar Al-Kholi told Arab News that there was not any incriminating evidence against the accused.

The lawyer said strong efforts were made to get the suspect to confess to his crimes but he did not.

Al-Zahrani accused Jeddah police of failing to catch the real criminal and said his brother was being tried by public opinion.

"The statements of victims were prearranged by detectives. The young girls had denied that my brother was their attacker. The police had forced them to incriminate him," he said.

He said that DNA tests proved that his brother was not responsible for the attacks. "My brother was accused of two cases that took place while he was outside the Kingdom," he added.

Al-Zahrani said it was Jeddah police who was responsible for falsifying evidence against the suspect after their failure to nab the real rapist.

"The police alleged that one of the victims recognized him when in fact she did not. She told the Prosecution and Investigations Commission it was not him who raped her. She denied telling police that she knew him," he said.

Al-Zahrani noted discrepancies in the reports of the victims’ families. "Some of them said he was black. Others said he was short. Other parents said he was tall. Some even said he had a broken tooth. None of these descriptions fitted my brother," he said.

Al-Zahrani said his brother was a teacher for many years and was honored by the Ministry of Education only one month before he was arrested. "My brother does not have a criminal record. He is a father of six children. It was the local press that indicted him on arrangements made by the police."

He said the way he was arrested proved his innocence. "He was called for questioning on Saturday and then released. On Monday he was called by the police again and was detained without any solid evidence."