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TechnoratiSaudis arrest about 30 Shia protesters
Police in Saudi Arabia have arrested about 30 Shia-Muslims, including two bloggers, accusing them of taking part in demonstrations in the eastern province of the Sunni-ruled kingdom, an activist website reported Thursday.
The arrests took place over the last two days, mainly in Al-Qatif and neighbouring towns which were the scenes of protests calling for the liberation of political prisoners and in solidarity with the opposition in Bahrain.
Bloggers Mustapha al-Moubarak and Hussein al-Hashem were arrested at the beginning of the week, according to rasid.com site, which claims to have the names of 25 detainees.
Another 100 people have been in detention since their arrest at the beginning of march when demonstrations first broke out.
The majority of Saudi Arabia’s two million Shia live in the eastern province, next door to Bahrain, which is ruled by a Sunni royal family although the majority of its population is Shia.
Saudi Arabia sent troops to Bahrain to help tackle protests there last month.
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save people in qatif
Saudi state violates the rights of the people is clear and explicit
Arrests were made for the book and intellectuals who supported the peaceful demonstration and all the demonstrations in support of their profile on the Internet
Among the 15 children detained on charges of participating in the demonstrations
News says that the detainees subjected to torture and ill-treatment in prison has not been tried are not allowed to visit
Although Saudi Arabia has signed agreements to protect the demonstrators and a pledge not to attack them but they are going after everyone involved in the demonstrations in solidarity with him or just
We ask in Qatif of the organizations and bodies and legal action to protect people in this region and to address the Saudi government to release detainees and stop hunting demonstrators and bloggers and non-exposure of children and minors