{"id":12470,"date":"2012-09-11T10:34:32","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T17:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=12470"},"modified":"2012-09-11T10:34:32","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T17:34:32","slug":"saudis-demand-release-of-political-prisoners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=12470","title":{"rendered":"Saudi&#8217;s Demand Release of Political Prisoners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hundreds of Saudi Shia protesters demand release of political detainees<\/strong><br \/>\nABNA &#8211; 11 September, 2012<\/p>\n<p>Activists and the family members of political prisoners in Saudi Arabia have held a protest rally in the capital, Riyadh, to renew their calls for the release of the political detainees in the Arab kingdom. <\/p>\n<p> Hundreds of Saudi Shia protesters demand release of political detainees<br \/>\n(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) &#8211; Activists and the family members of political prisoners in Saudi Arabia have held a protest rally in the capital, Riyadh, to renew their calls for the release of the political detainees in the Arab kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>In a gathering outside the Attorney General&#8217;s office in the capital on Monday, they also demanded the release of political activists held in Saudi jails without trial.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy brother told me he was taken to court last year but it was a secret trial and they didn&#8217;t let him choose his own lawyer. It&#8217;s been over a year and we still don&#8217;t have the result of the trial. In my opinion, this trial is nothing but a show,\u201d said a protester.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia has been under fire for its human rights record especially for the detention of many anti-government protesters since the onset of a popular uprising last year.<\/p>\n<p>Rights activists say hundreds of political prisoners remain locked up in Saudi jails under harsh conditions and without access to a lawyer.<\/p>\n<p>People are randomly arrested by the Saudi police just for looking suspicious, and are held behind bars for years before they are even charged.<\/p>\n<p>According to Human Rights Watch (HRW), the Saudi regime &#8221;routinely represses expression critical of the government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The oil-rich Eastern Province has been the focal point of the anti-regime protests in Saudi Arabia.  <a href=\"http:\/\/bahrain.dxbwebsite.com\/bahrain-the-country-of-real-protests-and-fake-bombs-al-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;source<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D12470&amp;text=Saudi%27s+Demand+Release+of+Political+Prisoners&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of Saudi Shia protesters demand release of political detainees ABNA &#8211; 11 September, 2012 Activists and the family members of political prisoners in Saudi Arabia have held a protest rally in the capital, Riyadh, to renew their calls for the release of the political detainees in the Arab kingdom. Hundreds of Saudi Shia protesters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=12470#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[3477],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12470"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12471,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12470\/revisions\/12471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}