(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Saudi Wahhabi security forces attacked a group of Shia women demanding the release of their husbands and children.They chanted the men and children have been “forgotten” and called for their immediate release of prisoners arrested for years without any trial.
Sources said that the Governor of Eastern Region Muhammad Bin Fahd ordered security forces to beat the women after blustering and threatening and claimed to return of the detainees.
A women who participated in the rally said, Muhammad bin Fahd threatens us after we asked for the release of our detainees who are in jail for more than 16 years without trial.
One of the wife of the detainees said: we just chanted peacefully to say the Saudi authorities to release our detainees but the Wahhabi security forces surrounded us and started beating us with batons and shouting and forced us to get out of the palace and we cried out "freedom .. freedom."
The protesters threatened to sit in front of the palace, if not met their demands, the security forces heavily deployed around the building of the palace in Dammam.
This incident comes after a meeting between Governor of Eastern Region Muhammad Bin Fahad last week at the headquarters of the palace with a number of Shia clerics and figures from Qatif asking them to discouraging young people from going out in the marches, which he described non-official.
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