{"id":12930,"date":"2012-09-26T08:08:22","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T15:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=12930"},"modified":"2012-09-26T08:08:22","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T15:08:22","slug":"ksa-frees-scholar-sheikh-hussein-radhy-after-arrest-on-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=12930","title":{"rendered":"KSA frees scholar Sheikh Hussein Radhy after arrest on Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saudi frees Shiite cleric held in restive east<\/strong>
\n26 September, 2012 – Lebanon News<\/p>\n

Saudi authorities released a Shiite cleric in Eastern Province, home to the kingdom’s minority Shiites and scene of sporadic anti-government protests, 24 hours after he was held, activists said Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The cleric’s website alradhy.com also reported that “scholar Sheikh Hussein Radhy was released,” without giving further details.<\/p>\n

Activists, who spoke to AFP on condition of anonymity, said that police had arrested Sheikh Radhy at his home in the eastern town of Amran on Monday night.<\/p>\n

They said he was likely to have been detained for taking part in protests last week against the anti-Islam film “Innocence of Muslims” that sparked a wave of violent demonstrations throughout the Arab and Muslim world.<\/p>\n

Interior Ministry spokesperson Mansur al-Turki had told AFP he was “not aware” of the arrest, but added the cleric may have been brought in “just for questioning.”<\/p>\n

Sheikh Radhy is one of about 70 Saudi Shiite clerics who released a statement addressed to “decision-makers in the Muslim world” demanding they take a clear stance on the anti-Islam film.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of Saudis took to the streets in the Shiite-populated east last week in protest over the film, despite a long-standing ban on demonstrations in the kingdom.<\/p>\n

Since early 2011, several towns and cities in the east have seen sporadic protests and confrontations between police and Shiites, who allege they are marginalized and number about two million.<\/p>\n

Unrest erupted after an outbreak of violence between Shiite pilgrims and religious police in the Muslim holy city of Medina in February 2011.<\/p>\n

The protests escalated when the kingdom led a force of Gulf troops into neighboring Bahrain the following month to help crush a Shiite-led uprising against the Sunni monarchy there.<\/p>\n

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