While Al-Qahtani and Al-Hamid are still free, al-Qahtani says they've been banned from travel, and the Saudi authorities keep a close eye on them, repeatedly calling them in for questioning.
But he said even if he and Al-Hamid go to prison, they've started something special.
But if the fate of other ACPRA members provides any clue of how things might go, the outlook isn't bright for him and Al-Hamid.
While Al-Qahtani and Al-Hamid have tried to file complaints in court, those efforts went nowhere because the court system did not process them, Al-Qahtani said.
He, Al-Hamid and other members began regularly posting updates about their campaign on ACPRA's website and e-mailing information to a growing base of members and supporters.
Professor al-Hamid believes that petitions are not enough, and that without popular pressure, from academics, from the religious scholars, and from businessmen, the government is unlikely to embark on serious reform.
On February 15, the Iraqi Ambassador to the UN, Hamid Al Bayati, spoke at New York's Fordham University.
Asked if he felt he was still being neglected by the Iraqi government, Sheikh Hamid al-Alwani, the head of the city council, didn't miss a beat.
Others in this powerful clan include Hamid al-Ahmar, a leader of the Islamist party Islah and a prominent businessman who has long been an opponent of the president.
The inquiry, named after one of the dead men, 19-year old Hamid al-Sweady, is the second public inquiry into allegations of abuse by British troops in Iraq, following one that examined the death in 2003 of Baha Mousa.
The powerful tribal chief Hamid al-Ahmar, who heads the Sunni Islamist Islah (Reform) party, is also reportedly boycotting the dialogue personally in protest at the decision to give Zaidi Shia rebels in northern Yemen, known as Houthis, most seats representing the province of Saada.
The emir of Qatar, Hamid bin Khalifa Al Thani, appointed his cousin as chairman of Al Jazeera.
The complaint also lists the aliases of Suleyman al-Faris and Abdul Hamid.
Mr Al-Sweady said that when Hamid's body was brought from the vehicles he washed it.
BBC: Al-Sweady Inquiry: Iraq teenager was hanged, says uncle
The Al-Sweady inquiry named after Hamid is examining claims that detainees were mistreated and killed in 2004 after the so-called Battle of Danny Boy.
BBC: Al-Sweady Inquiry: Iraq teenager was hanged, says uncle
Khuder Al-Sweady told the inquiry 19-year-old Hamid's body had a boot-shaped bruise on the forehead, a broken arm, bullet wounds and signs of hanging.
BBC: Al-Sweady Inquiry: Iraq teenager was hanged, says uncle
Mr Al-Sweady told the inquiry that not including hanging in Hamid's death certificate and discrepancies between his descriptions and those of other witnesses had been a mistake, and said there had been problems with translation as he had given various statements.
BBC: Al-Sweady Inquiry: Iraq teenager was hanged, says uncle
In a column published by The Atlantic, Hamid said Morsi lacks the charisma and "crossover appeal" of al-Shater.
Speaking via an interpreter, Mr al-Sweady said he searched the fields by torchlight, frantic with worry, after Hamid failed to come home.
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