Arrest frenzy in Saudi Arabia

Riyadh has gone on an arrest spree which has most recently saw more than 50 people north of the Kingdom detained, says a Saudi human rights group.

Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association (ACPRA) said in a statement that the campaign was being carried out in Buraidah, Qassim's provincial capital, AFP reported.

The 50-plus individuals recently arrested in the northern province of Qassim are mostly youths and adolescents, the report added.

"We don't know why they were arrested, they arrested entire families and they still have some of the fathers," Mohammed Fahd al-Qahtani, a founder of ACPRA, told the agency.

Alongside the detainees was Thamer Abdulkareem Al-Khather described in the statement as, a member of "the youth movement that calls for constitutional reform" in the Kingdom.

Thamer, a university student "interested in human rights" and "an advocate of prisoners' rights," and his father, one of the founders of the ACPRA, "have been constantly harassed by the (interior ministry's General Investigation Directorate) DGI's clandestine detectives a week before Thamer's arrest," the statement said.

Saudi Arabia has arrested thousands of people over the past years, many of whom remain in detention without being charged.

Source: PressTV.
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