AhlulBayt News Agency

source : ABNA
Monday

15 June 2009

7:30:00 PM
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Saudi authorities arrest three more Shias in al-Ahsa

Saudi extremist authorities have arrested three Shias on Saturday in Al-Ahsa in pretext of participation in religious activities during the month of Ashura on last January.

Saudi extremist authorities have arrested three Shias on Saturday in Al-Ahsa in pretext of participation in religious activities during the month of Ashura on last January.

According to informed sources in Al-Ahsa, Saudi forces arrested Sayyed Bassam Ali Al-Ali (19 years), Hussein Yusuf al-Harbi (22 years) and Sayyed Mohamed Hussain Salman (27 years).

The family of the three young Shias, all from the village of Rumaila, said that their children accused because of sticking signs of Ashoura and to participating in religious ceremony in the month of Muharram on last January.

The governor of al-Ahsa, Badr bin Gallwy, ordered to detain the three youths for a week. 

The total of Shias in custody is 19 prisoners.

It is near five years that Saudi security authorities put Shias under the pressure to restrict their activities. They arrest and harass hundred of Shias. Saudi forces under the Wahhabian influence shut down dozens of mosques and religious schools.

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