The move comes four days after Azam, his wife Tanzeen Fatima, and Abdullah, a former MLA, were convicted and sentenced to seven years in jail in a 2019 case of alleged forgery of Abdullah’s birth certificate.

Source: https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/lucknow/days-after-forgery-conviction-azam-khan-son-shifted-to-different-jails-says-might-get-killed-in-encounter-8995116/

The outreach to China goes as far back as King Abdullah’s reign, in the two-thousands: after he became King, one of his first foreign trips was to China.

Source: https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/what-the-saudi-iran-deal-means-for-the-middle-east