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| Riyadh detains Islamic scholar as crackdown on dissent intensifies |
| 2018-07-13 |
| [PRESSTV] Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... has taken into custody a prominent Moslem scholar as part of an ongoing campaign to silence dissidents in the kingdom. Human rights campaigners and online activists said on Thursday that Sheikh Safar al-Hawali were tossed into the calaboose, without providing further details. Hawali is a leading figure in Saudi Arabia's Sahwa (Awakening) movement, which opposes the presence of US troops in the Arabian Peninsula. In the 1990s, Hawali was tossed in the calaboose Please don't kill me! for opposing the Saudi ties with US troops leading a military operation in Kuwait. In 1993, he was banned from public speaking and dismissed from his academic posts on suspicion of attempting to incite civil disobedience. In 1994, the Islamic scholar was once again placed in durance vile You have the right to remain silent... , but was soon released. Last month, Saudi authorities detained a number of prominent women’s rights advocates, just days before lifting the decades-long ban on women's driving. |
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