27 February 2011 - 20:30

Saudi authorities arrested Sheikh Tawfiq Al-Amer one of the most prominent Shia in Al-Ahsa who was a peaceful freedom fighter and civil rights activist after recently invited to a constitutional monarchy in the Kingdom.

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - In an official invitation Sheikh Amer was invited to police station of Damam, where he was taken upon arrival directly to the station.

One of the family members of Sheikh Amer said that they had received a telephone call at mid-night in which the Department of Investigation in expressed the detention of Sheikh Amer and added he is visit banned.

Sheikh Amer arrest came after his last Friday sermon in the mosque Imam Baqi of Al-Ahsa in which he called for a constitutional monarchy in Saudi Arabia and put an end to sectarian discrimination in the country.

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