Wednesday, March 9, 2011

SAUDI ARABIA - The Saudi Shiites rally

"Calls have been launched on a Facebook page for a 'day of anger' March 4 in eastern Shiite-dominated Saudi Arabia ', reports L'Orient-Le Jour. The day before almost a hundred Saudi Shiites had already organized a rally in the same region of eastern Saudi Arabia where most of the oil wealth of the kingdom, demanding the release of prisoners "who were detained without charges or trial." Among these people is "Sheikh Al-Aamer arrested Feb.

27 after calling for the establishment of a constitutional monarchy." Shiites constitute about 10% of the population of Saudi Arabia.

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