Statement from Saudi Interior Ministry about demonstration in al-Qatif, Eastern Province
http://www.spa.gov.sa/English/details.php?id=931281
--SPA
21:26 LOCAL TIME 18:26 GMT
Riyadh, Dhu-AlQa'dah 6, 1432, Oct 4, 2011, SPA -- An official source at the Ministry of Interior stated today that at nine p.m. on Monday, a group of instigators of sedition, discord and unrest gathered near Al-Reef Roundabout in Awamiyah Town, Qatif Governorate; some of them, on motorcycles, were carrying Molotov bombs. They started their disturbing acts against the Public peace at the behest of a foreign country seeking to undermine the security and stability of the homeland in blatant interference in national sovereignty.
Such instigation was accepted by some weak-minded people who thought their actions will pass without a firm stand against whoever surrenders his will to the instructions and orders of foreign entities that seek to extend an influence outside their narrow circle. Those people have to clearly decide whether their loyalty is to Allah and their homeland or to that State and its authority.
With the grace of Allah Almighty, the security forces dealt with those people on site. After having been dispersed, security men encountered automatic weapon fire from a nearby neighborhood, injuring 11 security men, nine of whom were injured by weapon fire and two by Molotov bomb attacks. A man and two women in a nearby building were also injured by arms' fire. All injured were hospitalized.
In announcing this incident, the Ministry of Interior affirms that it will not tolerate any breach of the stability and security of the country and its citizens. The Ministry of Interior will deal with any mercenary or misled person by force and will strike with an iron fist whoever wishes to do so. At the same time, the Ministry of Interior calls upon the rational members of their families, those of whose loyalties we have no doubts, to bear their responsibilities towards their sons; otherwise, all will bear the consequences of their actions.
إصابة 14 شخصا بينهم 11 شرطياً في أعمال شغب بالسعودية
Injuring 14 people, including 11 police officers in riots in Saudi Arabia
http://www.sana.sy/ara/3/2011/10/04/373487.htm
October 04, .2011
Riyadh - Sana
An official source at the Saudi Interior Ministry said 14 people were injured, including 11 security men were injured in riots broke out yesterday evening in the east.
The news agency SPA "SPA" the source as saying that security forces dispersed a group of rioters in Awamiya province of Qatif, where the members of this group opened fire with machine guns towards the security forces, injuring 11 of the security men in addition to another person and two women in A nearby buildings.
The source added that the Ministry of the Interior would not accept at all compromising the security of the country and the citizen, stability, and they will strike with an iron hand anyone wishing to do so himself.
Some video clips from YouTube
Peaceful protest on Oct 2 during the day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNQk_JP4HUQ
Peaceful protest on Oct 2 late evening.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5K27jXA-WI
Long video (09:02 in total). Invisible at night. Young protesters are sometimes screaming. The title says they are attacking a hospital. Difficult to judge what is happening from this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8Hxq1c2egw
A young guy walking around in front of police cars.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2j1DZ63UUw
Protesters set fire on a car in the middle of the street.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYeNMMKR9U8
Sound of heavy gun fire. 2 objects are burning in the middle of the street. Chorus of Allahu Akbar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvVtX9kdgMk
The title says that protesters are shooting at the police station. But you won't be sure from this video which side is actually shooting because nothing is visible.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zXmq8PM0Wk
A line of police cars stop the traffic for inspection.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkCx7nBrZWk
Sound of gunfire (nothing is visible at night)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3k5OsQ1MEo
The protesters are filming the gun shot wound of a friend. Heavy gun fire continues.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZiWpurj9no
People shout "Allahu Akbar" in a protest to the sound of gun shot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-5Smuy8lTU
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3 shots fired at protesters at 00:36. Heavy gun fire from 00:45. According to the attached explanation, 24 people, not 14, were injured. Heavy gun fire continued throughout the night of Oct 3.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGvfp9veR9g
(Below is the attached explanation in Arabic, google translated into English)
24 wounded people were injured including a woman with the launch of the Saudi security forces fire on the people of Qatif and Awamiya and the surrounding areas east of the country. With income families Awamiya in clashes with security forces, arrived in many of the people of the surrounding areas to support the city's population.
He heard the sound of heavy fire in the sky of the town Awamiya province of Qatif on Monday evening, which saw the town during the past two days is boiling popular protest against the police arrested two elderly men (the late sixties of age) to put pressure on their sons (accused of participating in protest marches earlier) to deliver themselves.
Police arrested Zayed Al Haj his health deteriorated in the police station, and detained human rights activist Saudi Fadel Almnasef. The authorities have also detained human rights activist from the city of instantaneous Hussein Saihat after review of the emergency forces to the question on the status of his friend Almnasef. The authorities released Almnasef a few weeks ago after the arrest of as long as four months against the backdrop of peaceful marches in Qatif. The news that the police launched a second detainee, Saeed Abdel Aal, hours after his detention.
Tgmehrt and crowds of citizens before the police station who arrested Awamiya Almnasef but security forces fired on demonstrators and wounded a citizen. The young town had marched to a checkpoint Nazareth a roundabout dignity and staged a sit-in there to condemn the provocation of the authorities and professionals, arrests, and forced a checkpoint on the withdrawal.
The authorities have tightened security procedures at the entrances Awamiya, and saw the checkpoints around the town's busiest led to the accumulation of large cars over hundreds of meters. The authorities have sent more reinforcements to Awamah security and entered the town in the last hours the number of buses loaded with soldiers and mechanisms of the so-called "riot."
(end of explanation)
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It seems that the police and the protesters are shouting at each other.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUuT767AvpU
Statement from the Interior Ministry of Saudi Arabia (news clip)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSP3apAJSpY
Saudis hold protest rally in Qatif
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/202581.html
Mon Oct 3, 2011 7:2PM
LAST UPDATE
Saudi Arabian protesters have held a rally in the city of Qatif, in Eastern Province, despite the heavy presence of police.
Protesters called for the immediate release of thousands of political prisoners and demanded the resignation of the Qatif governor.
Activists say several buses loaded with regime forces arrived near the site of the protest.
The protest rally comes less than one day after a similar protest in the city in which gunshots were heard throughout the night.
Hundreds of Saudis took to the streets in Qatif on Sunday to protest against the detention of two senior citizens. Saudi security forces took the two men hostage in a bid to force their sons, who are wanted by Saudi authorities for participating in anti-government protests, surrender themselves to authorities.
Witnesses say hundreds of Saudis gathered outside the police headquarters in Qatif, demanding their immediate release, but security forces dispersed the crowd using force. Many activists are reported to be injured in the violence.
According to the activists, most of the detained political thinkers are being held by the government without trial or legitimate charges and were arrested for merely looking suspicious.
Some of the detainees are reported to be held without trial for more than 16 years.
Attempting to incite the public against the government and allegiance to foreign entities are usually the ready-made charges brought against political dissidents.
Families of political prisoners have repeatedly pleaded with the ruling monarchy to at least give their loved ones a fair trial. But for years now, the families say, the king has ignored their calls.
Human Rights Watch says more than 160 dissidents have been arrested since February as part of the Saudi government crackdown on protesters.
According to the Saudi-based Human Rights First Society (HRFS), the detainees were subject to both physical and mental torture.
Saudi protest turns violent by police
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/202679.html
Tue Oct 4, 2011 10:16AM
Anti-regime demonstrations in eastern Saudi Arabia have turned violent following brutal measures taken against protesters by security forces of the US-backed kingdom.
Clashes broke out in Qatif and Awamiyah in the Eastern Province after security forces opened fire to disperse hundreds of protesters chanting slogans against Riyadh policies.
Several protesters, including women, were injured during the clashes.
The demonstrators called for an end to the crackdown on dissidents and demanded the release of political prisoners.
They also condemned Saudi Arabia's military intervention in the neighboring Bahrain to assist the US-backed Manama regime with the suppression of popular anti-government protests in the tiny Persian Gulf Sheikhdom.
This comes after hundreds of Saudis took to the streets in Qatif on Sunday to protest against the detention of two senior citizens. Saudi security forces took the two men hostage in a bid to force their sons, who are wanted by Saudi authorities for participating in anti-government protests, to surrender themselves to authorities.
Witnesses say hundreds of Saudis gathered outside the police headquarters in Qatif, demanding their immediate release, but security forces dispersed the crowd using force. Many activists are reported to be injured in the violence.
Over the past months, Saudi activists in the Eastern Province have staged several anti-government protests, demanding reforms and the immediate release of political prisoners.
Human Rights Watch says more than 160 anti-government protesters have been arrested since February as part of the Saudi government's crackdown on demonstrations.
According to the Saudi-based Human Rights First Society, the detainees were subject to torture both physically and mentally.
'Saudi Arabia enemy of Muslim world'
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/202738.html
Tue Oct 4, 2011 3:40PM
The leader of the Houthi movement in Yemen says Saudi Arabia is an enemy to the entire Muslim world, accusing the Kingdom of creating hatred and hostility, Press TV reports.
Mohamed Badreddin al-Houthi said in an interview with Press TV that Saudi Arabia is "an enemy to all the free people of the world, including non-Muslims."
"It manufactures terrorism and an ideology that divides the people, divides Muslims, creates hatred and hostility," Houthi added.
The Yemeni figure, who is the brother of the late leader of the movement, Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi, further explained that in 2009 the Saudis "bribed the tribal leaders within the Houthi movement into favoring the Salafi-Wahabi ideology" so that they can control the border region between Yemen and Saudi Arabia, especially the northwestern city of Sa'ada.
In 2009, clashes broke out between the Houthi fighters and Saudi forces along the common border between the two countries. The Houthis accused Saudi Arabia of supporting the Yemeni government in attacks against them.
Houthi pointed out that the Saudi regime "would spend hundreds of thousands if not millions" to achieve its goals.
Hussein al-Houthi and a number of his men were killed in an attack launched by Yemeni government forces in an area close to the border with the Kingdom in September 2004.
Yemeni dictator Ali Abdullah Saleh has repeatedly claimed that if he hands over power, Yemen would be divided into multiple states.
Mohamed al-Houthi, however, said the Yemeni nation "cannot be separated," adding that the most important thing for the movement is "how to serve this nation, our Ummah, how to protect our morals and religious principles."
"We want dignity and independence. We will not accept continuation of Saleh scenario. We had enough during the 33 years [of his rule]. We cannot be fooled again," Houthi said.
Saleh, who was injured in an attack on the presidential palace in June, returned to Yemen on September 23 after receiving treatment in Saudi Arabia.
Demonstrators in Yemen have been holding protests against the US-backed Saleh regime since late January, demanding the trial of the Yemeni dictator for the brutal crackdown on the popular uprising.
According to local reports, hundreds of Yemenis have been killed and thousands more have been injured since the onset of the popular uprising in the country.
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