Saudi Arabia Police Break Up Rally in East, Activist Says
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Saudi Arabian security forces broke up a rally in the eastern city of al-Qatif, a day before what anti-government demonstrators have called a “Day of Rage,” Ibrahim al-Mugaiteeb, a local activist, said.
Al-Mugaiteeb, president of the al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia-based Human Rights First Society, said a doctor who attended to the wounded told him that two people were injured at the rally, in the Shiite Muslim-dominated city. He didn’t have details on how the injuries occurred. Interior Ministry spokesman Major General Mansour al-Turki had no immediate comment.