Saudi Arabia in addition to being the country with the largest oil reserves in the world and the great ally of the U.S.. UU. in the area, is also one of the most repressive authoritarian regimes on the planet. The House of Saud Al-queen with an iron fist in a country politically and socially it has always seemed stable, but with the arrival of the so-called Arab spring can begin to wobble, and the regime knows it.
That is why every attempt to protest has been harshly suppressed and may for that reason has ceased to Johani Mohamed Khaled, a young teacher with four children. On 11 March in Riyadh had been called a protest demanding freedom. Foreign journalists, accompanied by his critics, went to the scene, but only found a large police presence, helicopters hovering overhead and plainclothes officers.
No sign of dissent. Suddenly, a young man with big sunglasses, sideburns and stocky appearance approached reporters and blurted out something they did not expect: "I am here to say that we need freedom, need to be able to speak freely, no one can stop us from giving our opinion ". This spontaneity is not unusual in a country where there is neither political freedom or expression and applying the death penalty, but the young teacher could not go.
"I was scared and I shut up, shut up until I burst," I need to give me my rights without having to beg for it, "he argued before a swarm of journalists. A little more removed, secret agents dressed in traditional Saudi white robe and dark glasses talking on the phone looking grumpy. Khaled was aware that what he was doing without risk, but even so he still had courage to joke, "they never imagined that someone in Saudi Arabia would have the courage to speak," he said in reference to the agents.
"All you see here are the police" "I've been here twice and I've been told that if I passed third took me to jail," I want to go to jail! "Demanded. The present foreign media asked Khaled if he was not worried about what might happen or your children, but the professor said he feared more for the future of their young than its present.
On the way to his car, a brand new white sports dyed black glasses, the young man asked, smiling at reporters who were to visit the prison, he was sure he would not get home, and apparently , hit. It's been a month since Khaled Mohamed al Johani demonstrated an unusual courage, and nobody has heard from him, his phone is off.
The young man could have paid dearly for daring to say in a dictatorship. To pressure the Saudi authorities have created a Facebook group under the name of "Where is Khalid?", Already has about 5,000 followers, but so far the question remains unanswered. 
That is why every attempt to protest has been harshly suppressed and may for that reason has ceased to Johani Mohamed Khaled, a young teacher with four children. On 11 March in Riyadh had been called a protest demanding freedom. Foreign journalists, accompanied by his critics, went to the scene, but only found a large police presence, helicopters hovering overhead and plainclothes officers.
No sign of dissent. Suddenly, a young man with big sunglasses, sideburns and stocky appearance approached reporters and blurted out something they did not expect: "I am here to say that we need freedom, need to be able to speak freely, no one can stop us from giving our opinion ". This spontaneity is not unusual in a country where there is neither political freedom or expression and applying the death penalty, but the young teacher could not go.
"I was scared and I shut up, shut up until I burst," I need to give me my rights without having to beg for it, "he argued before a swarm of journalists. A little more removed, secret agents dressed in traditional Saudi white robe and dark glasses talking on the phone looking grumpy. Khaled was aware that what he was doing without risk, but even so he still had courage to joke, "they never imagined that someone in Saudi Arabia would have the courage to speak," he said in reference to the agents.
"All you see here are the police" "I've been here twice and I've been told that if I passed third took me to jail," I want to go to jail! "Demanded. The present foreign media asked Khaled if he was not worried about what might happen or your children, but the professor said he feared more for the future of their young than its present.
On the way to his car, a brand new white sports dyed black glasses, the young man asked, smiling at reporters who were to visit the prison, he was sure he would not get home, and apparently , hit. It's been a month since Khaled Mohamed al Johani demonstrated an unusual courage, and nobody has heard from him, his phone is off.
The young man could have paid dearly for daring to say in a dictatorship. To pressure the Saudi authorities have created a Facebook group under the name of "Where is Khalid?", Already has about 5,000 followers, but so far the question remains unanswered.
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