Ahlul Bayt News Agency (ABNA.ir), A Shia activist has been arrested last June by the Saudi police over joining a rally last year organized in Al-Awamia village in the province of Qatif city to protest the attacks that affected the Shia pilgrims in Medina.
According to reliable sources, the Saudi authorities have arrested the activist Ramzi Mohammed Jamal from his work office in Al-Awamia village.
Jamal who works as a general contractor as well as a social activist has been on the detention list since last year over joining a rally protest against the attacks that affected some Shia pilgrims in Medina.
Members of The Saudi Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (SCPVPV), also known as the Saudi Religious Police, attacked thousands of Shia pilgrims in the vicinity of the holy mosque of Prophet Mohammed after a wave of protests over the harassment of Shia women by the SCPVPV.
According to family sources, some members of the Saudi police took the young detainee to the Police Headquarter in Al-Awamia village in a preparation for a later transfer to the emergency forces center in Dhahran city.
Jamal has been wanted by the police for a long period of time; and even more, the Saudi authorities have called to his father and a number of his brothers in earlier times to put the pressure on him to surrender himself.
On several occasions, the Saudi police have arrested about 35 young men from Al-Awamia village over the protest rally, but then they were all released after spending several months in detention.
Some residents of Al-Awamia village said that a number of local young men have been in custody without specific charges for the seventh month in the raw, including Munir Al-Jassass, Yousef Mohammed Zahir, and Mohamad Al-Labbad.
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