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Amnesty Urges Release of Saudi Political Prisoners, Saudi Women Revolt

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Amnesty International criticized the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for imprisoning anti-regime protesters without any charge or trial, and called for their immediate release.
Amnesty Urges Release of Saudi Political Prisoners, Saudi Women Revolt

In a report published recently by the UK-based rights group, it stated that almost a year after the planned "Day of Rage" demonstration in the Saudi capital Riyadh, some protesters are still imprisoned without being charged or tried.
The "Day of Rage" was a planned demonstration, organized by activists, to demand political reforms in the Persian Gulf kingdom. However, the protest day was foiled due to a heavy security forces' deployment in the area.

"Holding people for a year merely for intending to protest is completely unconscionable. But that is what it seems the Saudi authorities have been doing in the name of security", stated Philip Luther, Amnesty's interim director for the Middle East and North Africa.

Also, Amnesty asserted that it received information that the Saudi detainees were and still are being "tortured or otherwise ill-treated after being detained".
Moreover, Amnesty International confirmed, according to sources, that the Saudi regime has arrested hundreds of civilians for protesting or demanding reforms in their regime.

"Most have been released without charge, but others remain in detention without charge or trial, while several have been charged with vague security-related and other offences", the rights body affirmed.
Amnesty Urges Release of Saudi Political Prisoners, Saudi Women Revolt

On another hand, Students at a women's university in Saudi Arabia launched a boycott classes after dozens were hurt during a campus protest following the intervention of security forces.
Students at King Khalid University in the town of Abha announced that a strike is on for Saturday.

The students had begun a protest on Tuesday, attracting at least 8,000 on Wednesday, to criticize the university administration for allowing the campus to deteriorate, and to call against ongoing corruption in the country.

"On Wednesday...security forces entered the campus with sticks, threatening the students to bang their heads against chairs and desks. Later the forces used fire extinguishers against the girls...," said one student, who like others, spoke on case of anonymity for their own safety.
According to Saeed al-Mugair, a health ministry spokesman, 53 students suffered minor injuries in the fracas.
In parallel, "al-Watan" Saudi paper reported Saturday that "a vegetable seller in the city of Arar in the north of the Kingdom burned himself, in an incident similar to the famous Tunisian vegetable vendor Mohamed Bouazizi."

Meanwhile, Saudi human rights campaigner Mohammed Albajady is still on hunger strike to protest his detention of nearly one-year without trial. Activists say he refused to eat 16 days ago.
Saudi Arabia followed other Arab countries in the wave of anti-regime uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa. The Saudi authorities have been imposing a strict crackdown against any protest that opposes the regime policies.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by moqawama.org